Environmentalist thought and ideology

'A fascinating portal into arguments about why we need to get beyond money' - Harry CleaverWhat would a world without money look like?

A sense of urgency pervades global environmentalism, and the degrowth movement is bursting into the mainstream.

A sense of urgency pervades global environmentalism, and the degrowth movement is bursting into the mainstream.

Climate change is real, and extreme weather events are its physical manifestations.

Climate change is real, and extreme weather events are its physical manifestations.

This book is a manifesto for real urban change.

This book is a manifesto for real urban change.

Does small mean less?

Does small mean less?

Elinor Ostrom was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Economics.

Elinor Ostrom was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Economics.

Every year since 1983 the Buddhist leader and thinker, Daisaku Ikeda, has issued a peace proposal that presents solutions to a variety of global problems.

In particular, Donna Haraway argued in her famous 1991 'Cyborg Manifesto' that people, since they are so often now detached and separated from nature, have themselves evolved into cyborgs.

For every year since 1983 the Buddhist leader and thinker, Daisaku Ikeda, has issued a peace proposal that presents solutions to a variety of global problems.

An attack on the idea that nature and society are impossible to distinguish from each otherIn a world careening towards climate chaos, nature is dead.

Fiacre Ryan's story to this point is utterly compelling.

As an international ecotourism destination, Yosemite National Park welcomes millions of climbers, sightseers, and other visitors from around the world annually, all of whom are afforded dramatic experiences of the natural world.

Selected as one of LitHub's 38 Favorite Books of 2022Finalist for the 2022 Big Other Book Award for NonfictionIn this uncompromising essay, Jonathan Crary presents the obvious but unsayable reality: our 'digital age' is synonymous with the disastrous terminal stage of global capitalism and its financialization of social existence, mass impoverishment, ecocide, and military terror.

The Slow Food movement was set up in Italy as a response to the dominance of fast food chains, supermarkets and large-scale agribusiness.

We live in an age of ecocide.

Climate change and other ecological ills are driving the creation of a grassroots global movement for change.

Millions of people in the West are running up huge ecological debts: from the amount of oil and coal that we burn to heat our houses and run our cars, to what we consume and the waste that we create, the impact of our lifestyles is felt worldwide.

'There is no alternative' has been the unofficial mantra of the neoliberal order since its utterance by Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.

'There is no alternative' has been the unofficial mantra of the neoliberal order since its utterance by Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.

Over the past four decades the world has seen a 'green awakening'.

Over the past four decades the world has seen a 'green awakening'.

'One of the world's most prominent radical scientists.

'One of the world's most prominent radical scientists.

All effects of human action will inevitably be played out within our planet's limits; any hope of infinity is an illusion.

All effects of human action will inevitably be played out within our planet's limits; any hope of infinity is an illusion.

Destined to transform its field, this volume features some of the most exciting feminist scholars and activists working within feminist political ecology, including Giovanna Di Chiro, Dianne Rocheleau, Catherine Walsh and Christa Wichterich.

Destined to transform its field, this volume features some of the most exciting feminist scholars and activists working within feminist political ecology, including Giovanna Di Chiro, Dianne Rocheleau, Catherine Walsh and Christa Wichterich.

Humankind has long considered the relationship it holds with nature to be both a blessing and a challenge.

Until recently, discussion of Hollywood film has dominated much of the contemporary dialogue on ecocriticism and the cinema.

Until recently, discussion of Hollywood film has dominated much of the contemporary dialogue on ecocriticism and the cinema.

NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) protests are often criticized as parochial and short-lived, generating no lasting influence on broader processes related to environmental politics.

Information is crucial when it comes to the management of resources.

In spite of decades of research on toxicants, along with the growing role of scientific expertise in public policy and the unprecedented rise in the number of national and international institutions dealing with environmental health issues, problems surrounding contaminants and their effects on health have never appeared so important, sometimes to the point of appearing insurmountable.

Faced with climate change, many counsel "e;going green,"e; encouraging us to buy organic food or a "e;clean"e; car, for example.

In a unique journey from the oil fields of the Caspian Sea to the refineries and financial centres of Northern Europe, James Marriott and Mika Minio-Paluello track the concealed routes along which flows the lifeblood of our economy.

With the rise of coal power, the producers who oversaw its development acquired the ability to shut down energy systems, a threat they used to build the first mass democracies.

We live in a world where the drive for economic growth is crowding out everything that can't be given a monetary value.

This book provides an internationally grounded and critical review of grassroots sustainability enterprises, specifically focusing on the processes that lead to their formation, the governing context that shapes their evolution, the benefits they create and the challenges that they face in different contexts.

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 groundbreaking work remains as relevant today as when it was when first published.

In this bold intervention, Cudworth and Hobden draw on recent advances in thinking about complexity theory to call for a profound re-envisioning of the study of international relations.

Seeking ways to understand her chosen continent better, Belinda Probert bought a rural property outside of Melbourne to observe the land more closely and learn how to garden differently.

A meditation on movement of both society and nature, based on the author's experiences as an activist.

What do two white men born in the century before last have to say that could possibly be of any use or value in the current conjuncture of climate collapse, the end of the age of fossil fuels and much life on earth, and the recent re-rise of reactionary forces against progressive politics?