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Definition: environmentalism from Dictionary of Energy

Social Issues. an active social movement of the contemporary era focusing on the threats to human health, and to the earth itself, posed by various types of damage to natural systems; includes a broad range of concerns, such as air and water pollution, climate change, loss of biodiversity, threats of extinction for certain species, conversion of wilderness land for commercial purposes, and expanding human population.


ENVIRONMENTALISM

From The Dictionary of Alternatives
Emerged out of concerns over pollution, global warming, soil erosion, deforestation, waste disposal, and resource depletion. To the extent that many of these environmental problems have been created by industrial production, economic growth and Western-style consumption, environmentalists often offer a critique of the model of economic growth on which they are based. Although environmentalism has a long historical lineage that can be traced back to ROMANTICISM and critiques of the impacts of industrial development on the environment during the Industrial REVOLUTION ( NEWS FROM NOWHERE ; WALDEN ), as a modern social movement, it emerged in the 1960s. A significant milestone was the publication of Rachel Carson’s (1962) Silent Spring , which denounced the impact of agricultural chemicals on wildlife. The early 1970s saw the emergence of two major groups: Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace, as well as the first Earth Summit. Another defining moment was the publication of a report by the…
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From American Governance
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Environmentalism is a broad term used to describe the ideology of social and political movements that emerged in the 1960s around concerns about pollution, population growth, the preservation of wilderness, endangered species, and other threatened nonrenewable resources such as energy and mineral…
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From International Encyclopedia of Human Geography
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© 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Glossary Environment Circumstances or conditions that surround an organism or ecosystem; the social and cultural conditions that affect individuals and societies. Environmental Of or pertaining to the environment such as environmental factors; environmental…
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From The Oxford Companion to International Relations
This essay highlights the conceptual foundations, traces key developments, and highlights new directions in the relationship between environmentalism and politics. Recent trends in theoretical, empirical, and policy developments are likely to pave the way for further adjustments in this relationship…
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From The Columbia Encyclopedia
movement to protect the quality and continuity of life through conservation of natural resources , prevention of pollution , and control of land use . The philosophical foundations for environmentalism in the United States were established by Thomas Jefferson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry David…
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From SAGE Key Concepts series: Key Concepts in Critical Management Studies
Definition: Environmentalism refers to a social movement and associated body of thought that expresses concern for the state of the natural environment and seeks to limit the impact of human activities on the environment. INTRODUCTION Environmentalism has grown out of concerns that the natural…
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From Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History
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Environmentalism refers to a movement for greater consideration of the natural environment's value when determining social and economic policy. The environmental movement in the United States began in the 1960s and gathered strength in the 1970s, when interest grew in curbing the effects of industry…
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From The Oxford Encyclopedia of the History of American Science, Medicine, and Technology
Environmentalism encompasses a range of perspectives connecting concern for the natural world with a social movement that emerged in the last third of the twentieth century. The origins of environmentalism are seen in many strands of human experience, including religion, philosophy, and mythology, …
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From Environmental History and Global Change: A Dictionary of Environmental History
A movement which attempts to influence political processes by lobbying, activism and education in order to protect natural resources and ecosystems. In its modern form its origins go back to the Industrial Revolution and concern over pollution and environmental degradation. The first modern…
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From The Dictionary of Alternatives
Emerged out of concerns over pollution, global warming, soil erosion, deforestation, waste disposal, and resource depletion. To the extent that many of these environmental problems have been created by industrial production, economic growth and Western-style consumption, environmentalists often…
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From The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of the American Enlightenment
Many important thinkers of the American Enlightenment contributed to the development of environmental sciences, as well as describing the beauties of American nature. We are inclined to think of Environmentalism as a modern phenomenon, as a consequence of overpopulated, industrialized societies on a…
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