The age of ecology
Subtitle: a global history
By: Joachim Radkau ; translated by Patrick Camiller
Contributors: Camiller, Patrick
Edition: English edition.
Publisher: Polity
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 546
ISBN-13: 9780745662169
Subjects: Environmentalism; Environmentalists; Ecology; Human ecology; History
Work titles: Ära der ökologie
Description: "This book is the first major history of environmentalism, from its origins in romanticism and the nature cults of the late eighteenth century to the global environmental movements of today."--Jacket.
Notes: Originally published in German as Die Ära der Ökologie. München : Beck, 2011.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 432-516) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the green chameleon; title: Environmentalism before the environmental movement; title: The great chain reaction : the 'ecological revolution' in and around 1970; title: Networked thinking and practical priorities : an endless interplay; title: Charismatics and ecocrats; title: A friend-enemy or win-win scenario?; title: Ecology and the historic turn of 1990: from social justice to climate justice?; title: Conclusion : the dialectic of green enlightenment.