A History of Environmentalism: Local Struggles, Global Histories (Paperback)

1. Introduction Marco Armiero (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden) and Lise Sedrez (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) 2. Preservation, parks, and place: Rethinking Americas best idea Jerritt Frank (University of Missouri, USA) 3. Biological diversity as a political force in Australia Libby Robin (Australian National University) 4. Oil, ethnic minority groups and environmental struggles against multinational oil companies and the federal government in the Nigerian Niger Delta since the 1990s Phia Steyn (University of Stirling, UK) 5. Protecting the Tibetan Antelope: A historical narrative and missing stories Mao Da (Beijing Normal University, China) and Mei Xueqin (Tsinghua University, China) 6. Blood on the ice: The Greenpeace Campaign against the harp seal slaughter Frank Zelko (University of Vermont, USA) 7. The struggle for justice in Bhopal: A new/old breed of transnational social movement Stephen Zavestoski (University of San Francisco, USA) 8. Rubber, trees and communities: Rubber tapers in the Brazilian Amazon in the late 20th century Lise Sedrez (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) 9. Garbage under the volcano. The waste crisis in Campania and the struggles for environmental justice Marco Armiero (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden) 10. The great fear: European environmentalism in the atomic age Hein-Anton van der Heijden (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Index