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Learning and teaching with India’s green movement. A review
A review of Sunita Narain's recent book and a discussion of the Green Movement in India
Una reseña del libro reciente de Sunita Narain y un análisis del movimiento verde de la India
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Historical dictionary of the green movement
There are very serious environmental problems facing the planet. Biodiversity loss has reached unprecedented levels. Climate change is progressing so rapidly that within this century we are likely to see substantial sea level rise. There has been dramatic loss of tropical rainforests. Plastic pollution is killing wildlife and polluting our oceans. Various movements old and new are addressing these green issues. Civil society activism has taken on new strategies with the emergence of new technologies and global networks of green activists have formed. A new generation of green activists are emerging and boldly criticizing the status quo. At the same time, in some parts of the world, green movements that looked like they were beginning to gain a political foothold or were even doing quite well are in retreat. The reasons are complex. Some suffer from lack of funding and hostile political and legal environments. Others are being attacked by populist politicians who see green activism as a threat. The second edition of Historical Dictionary of the Green Movement contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 300 cross-referenced on green movements, green politics, green trends, and major environmental agreements and events. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the green movement. --From publisher's description.
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A New Model Society
Globalised neoliberal capitalism continues to entrench inequality, environmental degradation, and social division. The Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST), or Brazilian Landless Movement, offer us a route beyond any theoretical impasse or reluctant acquiescence to the enduring social and economic status quo. Through time spent working and living among the MST many of their defining features and activities are mapped. These include land occupations; the organisation of work co-operatively; the practising of agro-ecology; implementation of gender quotas for community leadership positions; and the application of principles based upon the 'common good'. These represent just some of the experiences, challenges, and lessons we as a global community can learn from MST communities as we think about alternative futures.
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Go green! : Lead the way
Presents basic information about climate change, water scarcity, deforestation, and other environmental concerns, as well as suggested ways to behave in an environmentally conscious way.
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City of Forests, City of Farms
City of Forests, City of Farms is a history of recent
urban forestry and agriculture policy and programs in New York
City. Centered on the 2007 initiative PlaNYC, this account tracks
the development of policies that increased sustainability efforts
in the city and dedicated more than $400 million dollars to trees
via the MillionTreesNYC campaign. Lindsay K. Campbell uses PlaNYC
to consider how and why nature is constructed in New York City.
Campbell regards sustainability planning as a process that unfolds
through the strategic interplay of actors, the deployment of
different narrative frames, and the mobilizing and manipulation of
the physical environment, which affects nonhuman animals and plants
as well as the city's residents.
Campbell zeroes in on a core omission in PlaNYC's original
conception and funding: Despite NYC having a long tradition of
community gardening, particularly since the fiscal crisis of the
1970s, the plan contained no mention of community gardens or urban
farms. Campbell charts the change of course that resulted from
burgeoning public interest in urban agriculture and local food
systems. She shows how civic groups and elected officials crafted a
series of visions and plans for local food systems that informed
the 2011 update to PlaNYC. City of Forests, City of Farms
is a valuable tool that allows us to understand and disentangle the
political decisions, popular narratives, and physical practices
that shape city greening in New York City and elsewhere.
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Greening auto jobs
Greening Auto Jobs: A Critical Analysis of the Green Job Solution details current and problematic understandings of what constitutes a \"green job.\" Adopting an approach grounded in critical political economy, this book presents a framework to scrutinize the green job solution and the theoretical framework which overwhelmingly informs contemporary green job creation efforts and ecological modernization. The text also explores the tensions that encircle the world of work and environmental action, often referred to as \"jobs versus the environment,\" by detailing the conflicting commitments of political-economic actors to the idea of green job creation. These conflicts are outlined through an examination of the political-economic debate that has surrounded the Australian Government’s environmental plans from 2008 to 2012 and the conflicting positions of Australian trade unions on environmentally transitioning the world of work. Interviews with key political-economic actors provide in-depth and nuanced understandings of the varied perspectives of political and union leaders in Australia. The second part of the book presents a detailed case study of the posited green job solution within the specific context of the Australian automotive manufacturing industry. The case study is also informed by interviews with key industry, union, and policymakers. The automotive industry is scrutinized not only because it has expressed going green as important to its long-term economic future, but because the Australian Government declared that its
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Community Campaigns for Sustainable Living: Health, Waste & Protest in Civil Society
This book is based on research and observations undertaken for the author's PhD thesis at the National University of Ireland, and represents a case study of national and regional campaigns against both the Irish state's Regional Waste Management Plans and the corporate sector's attempts to develop waste incinerators or dumps in various parts of Ireland. This book provides an in depth account of the mobilizing patterns and framing processes of community campaigns which emerged in the wake of the Irish state's introduction of regional plans for waste management, which included plans for municipal 'waste to energy' plants or incinerators. It is the only book with a sole focus on this aspect of Irish society during the 'Celtic Tiger' boom which preceded the current economic downturn, and examines policy, population, development social issues and local and national electoral processes in detail at a time of immense change in the Republic of Ireland. As such, it provides a salient insight into the societal shifts which provide opportunities for social movements to oppose state or corporate plans which may be perceived to have human health or environmental risks associated with them.
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