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Protecting the natural environment and promoting sustainability have become important objectives, but achieving such goals presents myriad challenges for even t

First published in 1992. Hailed as required reading for environmental sociologist and social movements, this book is written as a scholarly work and from a soci

Traces the history of the environmental movement from its beginnings as private clubs, to the activism of the 1960s and 1970s, to the corporate sellout of the 1

In A Fierce Green Fire, renowned environmental journalist Philip Shabecoff presents the definitive history of American environmentalism from the earliest days o