Citizen's Primer for Conservation Activism
Citizen's Primer for Conservation Activism

Author: Judith Perlman

Publisher: University of Texas Press

Published: 2009-06-03

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 0292774214

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Is there anything you can do when development threatens your local forest, beach, prairie, or wetland? Yes, there is. Across America, citizen activists are fighting and winning battles against unwanted development in their own communities. To help you resist the urban sprawl and absentee landowners that can wreck small towns and cities alike, this book is a practical, hands-on guide for building a grassroots campaign to defeat undesirable development. Written by a successful activist, Citizen's Primer for Conservation Activism takes you through all the steps necessary to stop unplanned development in your community: Identifying the issues at stake Getting involved and developing leadership Devising a strategy Hiring and working with legal counsel Building coalitions and partnerships Influencing local government Conducting a media campaign Raising money Countering developer tactics Managing the whole process With the proven strategies in this easy-to-access book, you can quickly gear up to challenge unwanted development and preserve the character of your local community.

Citizen's Primer for Conservation Activism
Citizen's Primer for Conservation Activism

Author: Judith Perlman

Publisher: University of Texas Press

Published: 2009-06-03

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 0292797672

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Is there anything you can do when development threatens your local forest, beach, prairie, or wetland? Yes, there is. Across America, citizen activists are fighting and winning battles against unwanted development in their own communities. To help you resist the urban sprawl and absentee landowners that can wreck small towns and cities alike, this book is a practical, hands-on guide for building a grassroots campaign to defeat undesirable development. Written by a successful activist, Citizen's Primer for Conservation Activism takes you through all the steps necessary to stop unplanned development in your community: Identifying the issues at stake Getting involved and developing leadership Devising a strategy Hiring and working with legal counsel Building coalitions and partnerships Influencing local government Conducting a media campaign Raising money Countering developer tactics Managing the whole process With the proven strategies in this easy-to-access book, you can quickly gear up to challenge unwanted development and preserve the character of your local community.

Nature's New Deal
Nature's New Deal

Author: Neil M. Maher

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 0195306015

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Neil M. Maher examines the history of one of Franklin D. Roosevelt's boldest and most successful experiments, the Civilian Conservation Corps, describing it as a turning point both in national politics and in the emergence of modern environmentalism.

The Nature of Hope
The Nature of Hope

Author: Char Miller

Publisher: University Press of Colorado

Published: 2019-02-15

Total Pages: 363

ISBN-13: 1607328488

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The Nature of Hope focuses on the dynamics of environmental activism at the local level, examining the environmental and political cultures that emerge in the context of conflict. The book considers how ordinary people have coalesced to demand environmental justice and highlights the powerful role of intersectionality in shaping the on-the-ground dynamics of popular protest and social change. Through lively and accessible storytelling, The Nature of Hope reveals unsung and unstinting efforts to protect the physical environment and human health in the face of continuing economic growth and development and the failure of state and federal governments to deal adequately with the resulting degradation of air, water, and soils. In an age of environmental crisis, apathy, and deep-seated cynicism, these efforts suggest the dynamic power of a “politics of hope” to offer compelling models of resistance, regeneration, and resilience. The contributors frame their chapters around the drive for greater democracy and improved human and ecological health and demonstrate that local activism is essential to the preservation of democracy and the protection of the environment. The book also brings to light new styles of leadership and new structures for activist organizations, complicating assumptions about the environmental movement in the United States that have focused on particular leaders, agencies, thematic orientations, and human perceptions of nature. The critical implications that emerge from these stories about ecological activism are crucial to understanding the essential role that protecting the environment plays in sustaining the health of civil society. The Nature of Hope will be crucial reading for scholars interested in environmentalism and the mechanics of social movements and will engage historians, geographers, political scientists, grassroots activists, humanists, and social scientists alike.

Environment and Citizenship
Environment and Citizenship

Author: Benito Cao

Publisher:

Published: 2014-11-13

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780415637800

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The increasing awareness of the human impact on the environment is having a profound effect on the concept and content of citizenship -one of the fundamental institutions that structures human relations. In what is the first introduction of its kind, this book provides an accessible, stimulating and multidimensional overview of the many ways in which concern for the environment -driven primarily by the preoccupation with sustainability- is reshaping our understanding of citizenship. The content is structured in three parts. Part I introduces the reader to the concept and theories of citizenship and explores the impact that environmental concerns is having on contemporary formulations of citizenship, both traditional ones (e.g. national, liberal and republican) and emerging ones (e.g. ecological, ecofeminist and cosmopolitan). Part II explores the intersection between citizenship and the environment through a series of case studies, drawn from a wide range of countries, broadly categorised as belonging to the Global North (e.g. the USA, Canada, the UK, Sweden, Australia and Japan) and the Global South (e.g. India, China, Ecuador, Brazil, Kenya and South Africa). Part III explores representations of environmental citizenship in a diversity of media texts (e.g. iconic pictures, films and documentaries) as well as different ecological pedagogies used to promote notions of environmental citizenship (e.g. conservation parks, community gardens and ecological footprints). The text concludes with a general reflection on what environmental citizenship offers to and demands from the citizens of the 21st century. The book contains a variety of illustrations, boxed case-studies, suggestions for further reading and links to internet resources. This original and engaging text is essential reading for students and scholars of environmental politics, sustainability studies and development studies, as well as for environmental activists, policy practitioners and environmental educators. More broadly, this book will appeal to anyone interested in and concerned with issues of sustainability, social justice and citizenship in the 21st century.