The Greenpeace Guide To Anti Environmental Organizations

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Since most Americans today consider themselves environmentalists, ecologically destructive industries are now creating elaborate front groups that masquerade as environmental organizations. In this ground-breaking book, Greenpeace writer Carl Deal lists these groups, their real agendas and, where possible, their corporate sponsors. An eye-opener for anyone who's concerned about the environment.

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Genre : Nature
Author : Carl Deal
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Release : 1993
File : 118 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015029871657


Building Sustainable Societies A Blueprint For A Post Industrial World

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A collection of articles addressing the issue of whether the industrial model of human progress can be sustained in the long term. It asks what the social, political, economic and environmental implications as well as potential solutions to the problem of resource-intensive growth are.

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Genre : Political Science
Author : Dennis Clark Pirages
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2016-09-16
File : 369 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781315285436


Toxic Loopholes

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The EPA was established to enforce the environmental laws Congress enacted during the 1970s. Yet today lethal toxins still permeate our environment, causing widespread illness and even death. Toxic Loopholes investigates these laws, and the agency charged with their enforcement, to explain why they have failed to arrest the nation's rising environmental crime wave and clean up the country's land, air and water. This book illustrates how weak laws, legal loopholes and regulatory negligence harm everyday people struggling to clean up their communities. It demonstrates that our current system of environmental protection pacifies the public with a false sense of security, dampens environmental activism, and erects legal barricades and bureaucratic barriers to shield powerful polluters from the wrath of their victims. After examining the corrosive economic and political forces undermining environmental law making and enforcement, the final chapters assess the potential for real improvement and the possibility of building cooperative international agreements to confront the rising tide of ecological perils threatening the entire planet.

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Genre : Law
Author : Craig Collins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release : 2010-03-08
File : Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781139488952


Western Public Lands And Environmental Politics

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First Published in 2018. An explanation of changes in US Congress policies that affect the management of rangeland, timber, energy, mineral, and wilderness resources in the West of the country. The contributors examine policy decisions within the context of political, economic and demographic forces.

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Genre : Political Science
Author : Charles Davis
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2018-05-04
File : 433 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780429982767


Encyclopedia Of Global Justice

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This encyclopedia provides a premier reference guide for students, scholars, policy makers, and others interested in assessing the moral consequences of global interdependence and understanding the concepts and arguments that shed light on the myriad aspects of global justice.

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Genre : Electronic books
Author : Deen K. Chatterjee
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Release : 2011
File : 1213 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781402091599


Divided Planet

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Global warming. Soil loss. Freshwater scarcity. Extinction. Overconsumption. Toxic waste production. Habitat and biodiversity erosion. These are only a few of our most urgent ecological crises. There are others as well and, despite the popularity of good-news environmentalism, few of them are going away. In this wide-ranging, grimly entertaining commentary on the environmental debate, Tom Athanasiou finds that these problems are exacerbated, if not caused, by the planet's division into "warring camps of rich and poor." Writing with passionate intelligence, Athanasiou proposes a simple yet radical solution--stop indulging easy, calming fantasies in which everything seems to change, but nothing important changes at all. Instead, do what needs to be done, now, while there is still time and goodwill. The bottom line, he concludes, is that there will be no sustainability without a large measure of justice. Without profound political and economic change, he argues, there can be no effective global environmental action, no real effort to save the planet.

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Genre : Nature
Author : Tom Athanasiou
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Release : 1998
File : 426 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0820320072


The War Against The Greens

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A reign of violence and intimidation, including arson, bombings, rape, assault and even murder has been unleashed against environmental activists and government employees by proponents of the so-called "Wise Use" movement. The War Against the Greens rips the veneer of legitimacy off this right-wing backlash that stretches from armed Militias to the halls of Congress, exposing the public lands corporations, political operatives and fringe groups who have set out to destroy America's environmental protections by any means necessary. In this updated edition, Helvarg revealed how the petroleum-heavy George W. Bush administration helped expand the backlash, bringing the same individuals and industries into alliance with big oil and the Republican Party, ending an era of bipartisan progress. This is a must-read for anyone wanting to understand the history behind the science denial, corruption, and public lands debacles that mark the Trump era.

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Genre : Business & Economics
Author : David Helvarg
Publisher : Big Earth Publishing
Release : 2004
File : 404 Pages
ISBN-13 : 1555663281


How Mcgruff And The Crying Indian Changed America

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Pulitzer Prize nominated journalist Wendy Melillo authors the first book to explore the history of the Ad Council and the campaigns that brought public service announcements to the nation through the mass media. How McGruff and the Crying Indian Changed America: A History of Iconic Ad Council Campaigns details how public service advertising campaigns became part of our national conversation and changed us as a society. The Ad Council began during World War II as a propaganda arm of President Roosevelt's administration to preserve its business interests. Happily for the ad industry, it was a double play: the government got top-notch work; the industry got an insider relationship that proved useful when warding off regulation. From Rosie the Riveter to Smokey Bear to McGruff the Crime Dog, How McGruff and the Crying Indian Changed America explores the issues and campaigns that have been paramount to the nation's collective memory and looks at challenges facing public service campaigns in the current media environment.

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Genre : Social Science
Author : Wendy Melillo
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Release : 2013-09-10
File : 233 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781588343932


Governing Climate Change

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Governing Climate Change provides a short and accessible introduction to how climate change is governed by an increasingly diverse range of actors, from civil society and market actors to multilateral development banks, donors and cities. The issue of global climate change has risen to the top of the international political agenda. Despite ongoing contestation about the science informing policy, the economic costs of action and the allocation of responsibility for addressing the issue within and between nations, it is clear that climate change will continue to be one of the most pressing and challenging issues facing humanity for many years to come. The book: evaluates the role of states and non-state actors in governing climate change at multiple levels of political organisation: local, national and global provides a discussion of theoretical debates on climate change governance, moving beyond analytical approaches focused solely on nation-states and international negotiations examines a range of key topical issues in the politics of climate change includes multiple examples from both the north and the global south. Providing an inter-disciplinary perspective drawing on geography, politics, international relations and development studies, this book is essential reading for all those concerned not only with the climate governance but with the future of the environment in general.

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Genre : Political Science
Author : Harriet A Bulkeley
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2010-02-26
File : 293 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781135163112


Networks And Netwars

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Netwar-like cyberwar-describes a new spectrum of conflict that is emerging in the wake of the information revolution. Netwar includes conflicts waged, on the one hand, by terrorists, criminals, gangs, and ethnic extremists; and by civil-society activists (such as cyber activists or WTO protestors) on the other. What distinguishes netwar is the networked organizational structure of its practitioners-with many groups actually being leaderless-and their quickness in coming together in swarming attacks. To confront this new type of conflict, it is crucial for governments, military, and law enforcement to begin networking themselves.

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Genre : Political Science
Author : John Arquilla
Publisher : Rand Corporation
Release : 2001-11-05
File : 391 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780833032355