Grassroots Environmental Action

Author : Dharam Ghai,Jessica M. Vivian
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317858058

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Grassroots Environmental Action by Dharam Ghai,Jessica M. Vivian Pdf

Managing resources sustainably on the local level is essential for achieving the global goal of sustainable development. The importance of people's participation for sustainable development has recently become increasingly acknowledged yet there is little understanding of the multiple dimensions that such participation involves. Grassroots Environmental Action questions the viability of traditional management systems. Case studies from Latin America, Asia and Africa focus on areas where local people are vigorous actors in the determination of their own future and that of their environment.

Author : Nora Gallagher,Lisa Myers
Publisher : Patagonia
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781938340451

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Patagonia Tools for Grassroots Activists by Nora Gallagher,Lisa Myers Pdf

For over twenty years, Patagonia has organized a Tools Conference, where experts provide practical training to help make activists more effective. Now Patagonia has captured Tools’ best wisdom and advice into a book, creating a resource for any organization hoping to hone core skills like campaign and communication strategy, grassroots organizing, and lobbying as well as working with business, fundraising in uncertain times and using new technologies. Patagonia hopes the book will be dog-eared and scribbled in; a solid, inspiring guide and reliable companion. The book is organized in two sections: Strategies, and Tools. Each chapter, written by a respected expert in the field, covers essential principals as well as best practices. A hands-on case study accompanies each chapter and demonstrates the principles in action. Sprinkled throughout are inspirational thoughts from acclaimed activists, such as Jane Goodall, Bill McKibben, Wade Davis, Annie Leonard, and Terry Tempest Williams. An activist's companion in the environmental movement.

Author : Ronnie Cummins
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-11
Category : NATURE
ISBN : 9781603589758

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Grassroots Rising by Ronnie Cummins Pdf

Grassroots Rising is a passionate call to action for the global body politic, providing practical solutions for how to survive--and thrive--in catastrophic times. Author Ronnie Cummins aims to educate and inspire citizens worldwide to organize and become active participants in preventing ecological collapse. This book offers a blueprint for building and supercharging a grassroots Regeneration Movement based on consumer activism, farmer innovation, political change, and regenerative finance--embodied most recently by the proposed Green New Deal in the US. Cummins asserts that the solution lies right beneath our feet and at the end of our forks through the transformation of our broken food system. Using regenerative agriculture practices that restore our agricultural and grazing lands, we can sequester massive amounts of carbon in the soil. Coupled with an aggressive transition toward renewables, he argues that we have the power to not only mitigate and slow down climate change, but actually reverse global warming. In synergy with the Sunrise Movement and the growing support of a Green New Deal, Grassroots Rising will impact millions of conscious consumers, farmers, and the general public during the crucial 2020 election year and beyond. This book shows that a properly organized and executed Regeneration Revolution can indeed offer realistic climate solutions while also meeting our everyday needs. If you're wondering what you can do to help address the global climate crisis, joining the Regeneration Revolution might be the best first step. " Grassroots Rising] is a 'good news' instructional book for Regeneration, a practical, shovel-ready plan of action for the United States and the world to transition to climate stability, peace, justice, health, prosperity, cooperation, and participatory democracy." --Ronnie Cummins

Author : Alan Thein Durning
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015013188910

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Action at the Grassroots by Alan Thein Durning Pdf

There are many forces of environmental and economic decline that endanger our communities and planet. These have caused a global threat which is very complex. The pressure to feed increasing numbers of people helps cause high rates of topsoil loss which results in decreased agricultural productivity. As poorer nations attempt to fight these problems, millions of their children die of preventable diseases. On the other hand, rising industrialization has caused acid rain and air pollution, leading to the death of lakes, forests and streams, and endangering human health. Individual efforts to combat these enormous threats appear miniscule but, when added together, their impact has the ability to revolutionize the earth. Grassroots groups, governments, and international agencies must learn to work together to show the world how to tap human energy to perform the acts for achieving and sustaining global economy. This publication contains an introduction and notes section, along with the following topics: (1) "Rising Grassroots Movements"; (2) "The Genesis of Local Action"; (3) "Meeting Human Needs"; (4) "Earning Our Daily Bread"; (5) "Protecting the Local Environment"; (6) "Reforming Development Assistance"; and (7) "From the Bottom and the Top." (RT)

Author : Leah S. Horowitz,Michael J. Watts
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317303077

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Grassroots Environmental Governance by Leah S. Horowitz,Michael J. Watts Pdf

Grassroots movements can pose serious challenges to both governments and corporations. However, grassroots actors possess a variety of motivations, and their visions of development may evolve in complex ways. Meanwhile, their relative powerlessness obliges them to forge an array of shifting alliances and to devise a range of adaptive strategies. Grassroots Environmental Governance presents a compilation of in-depth ethnographic case studies, based on original research. Each of the chapters focuses specifically on grassroots engagements with the agents of various forms of industrial development. The book is geographically diverse, including analyses of groups based in both the global North and South, and represents a range of disciplinary perspectives. This allows the collection to explore themes that cross-cut specific localities and disciplinary boundaries, and thus to generate important theoretical insights into the complexities of grassroots engagements with industry. This volume will be of great interest to scholars of environmental activism, environmental governance, and environmental studies in general.

Author : Suzanne Staggenborg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108478489

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Grassroots Environmentalism by Suzanne Staggenborg Pdf

An inside look at how grassroots groups organize and develop strategies over seven years of participant observation in multiple organizations.

Author : Maria Grasso,Marco Giugni
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000517941

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The Routledge Handbook of Environmental Movements by Maria Grasso,Marco Giugni Pdf

This handbook provides readers with up-to-date knowledge on environmental movements and activism and is a reference point for international work in the field. It offers an assessment of environmental movements in different regions of the world, macrostructural conditions and processes underlying their mobilization, the microstructural and social-psychological dimensions of environmental movements and activism, and current trends, as well as prospects for environmental movements and social change. The handbook provides critical reviews and appraisals of the current state of the art and future development of conceptual and theoretical approaches as well as empirical knowledge and understanding of environmental movements and activism. It encourages dialogue across the disciplinary barriers between social movement studies and other perspectives and reflects upon the causes and consequences of citizens’ participation in environmental movements and activities. The volume brings historical studies of environmentalism, sociological analyses of the social composition of participants in and sympathizers of environmental movements, investigations by political scientists on the conditions and processes underlying environmental movements and activism, and other disciplinary inquiries together, while keeping a clear focus within social movement theory and research as the main lines of inquiry. The handbook is an essential guide and reference point not only for researchers but also for undergraduate and graduate teaching and for policymakers and activists.

Author : Robert D. Bullard
Publisher : South End Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 0896084469

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Confronting Environmental Racism by Robert D. Bullard Pdf

Author : Brian Tokar,Tamra Gilbertson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000049213

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Climate Justice and Community Renewal by Brian Tokar,Tamra Gilbertson Pdf

This book brings together the voices of people from five continents who live, work, and research on the front lines of climate resistance and renewal. The many contributors to this volume explore the impacts of extreme weather events in Africa, the Caribbean and on Pacific islands, experiences of life-long defenders of the land and forests in Brazil, India, Indonesia, and eastern Canada, and efforts to halt the expansion of fossil-fuel infrastructure from North America to South Africa. They offer various perspectives on how a just transition toward a fossil-free economy can take shape, as they share efforts to protect water resources, better feed their communities, and implement new approaches to urban policy and energy democracy. Climate Justice and Community Renewal uniquely highlights the accounts of people who are directly engaged in local climate struggles and community renewal efforts, including on-the-ground land defenders, community organizers, leaders of international campaigns, agroecologists, activist-scholars, and many others. It will appeal to students, researchers, activists, and all who appreciate the need for a truly justice-centered response to escalating climate disruptions.

Author : Erin Robinson
Publisher : Cambria Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781621967910

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Community Mobilization, Environmental Problems by Erin Robinson Pdf

Author : Christopher John Bosso
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015060589788

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Environment, Inc by Christopher John Bosso Pdf

""To understand the environmental movement is to understand environmental organizations. And no one better understands this than Bosso. . . . His book is both important and timely."-Jeffrey M. Berry, author of The New Liberalism: The Rising Power of Citizen Groups "A must read for anyone interested in the future of our environment."-Frank R. Baumgartner, coauthor of Basic Interests: The Importance of Groups in Politics and in Political Science "An important, engaging and well-written book that's ideal for courses in environmental politics."-Robert J. Duffy, author of The Green Agenda in American Politics: New Strategies for the Twenty-First Century "A masterful study that fills a critical void in the field."-Michael E. Kraft, author of Environmental Policy and Politics." -- Publisher.

Author : Douglas Bevington
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 161091144X

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The Rebirth of Environmentalism by Douglas Bevington Pdf

Over the past two decades, a select group of small but highly effective grassroots organizations have achieved remarkable success in protecting endangered species and forests in the United States. The Rebirth of Environmentalism tells for the first time the story of these grassroots biodiversity groups. Author Douglas Bevington offers engaging case studies of three of the most influential biodiversity protection campaigns—the Headwaters Forest campaign, the “zero cut” campaign on national forests, and the endangered species litigation campaign exemplified by the Center for Biological Diversity—providing the reader with an in-depth understanding of the experience of being involved in grassroots activism. Based on first-person interviews with key activists in these campaigns, the author explores the role of tactics, strategy, funding, organization, movement culture, and political conditions in shaping the influence of the groups. He also examines the challenging relationship between radicals and moderate groups within the environmental movement, and addresses how grassroots organizations were able to overcome constraints that had limited the advocacy of other environmental organizations. Filled with inspiring stories of activists, groups, and campaigns that most readers will not have encountered before, The Rebirth of Environmentalism explores how grassroots biodiversity groups have had such a big impact despite their scant resources, and presents valuable lessons that can help the environmental movement as a whole—as well as other social movements—become more effective.

Author : Elia Apostolopoulou,Jose A. Cortes-Vazquez
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780429763090

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The Right to Nature by Elia Apostolopoulou,Jose A. Cortes-Vazquez Pdf

Since the 2008 financial crash the expansion of neoliberalism has had an enormous impact on nature-society relations around the world. In response, various environmental movements have emerged opposing the neoliberal restructuring of environmental policies using arguments that often bridge traditional divisions between the environmental and labour agendas. The Right to Nature explores the differing experiences of a number of environmental-social movements and struggles from the point of view of both activists and academics. This collection attempts to both document the social-ecological impacts of neoliberal attempts to exploit non-human nature in the post-crisis context and to analyse the opposition of emerging environmental movements and their demands for a radically different production of nature based on social needs and environmental justice. It also provides a necessary space for the exchange of ideas and experiences between academics and activists and aims to motivate further academic-activist collaborations around alternative and counter-hegemonic re-thinking of environmental politics. This book will be of great interest to students, scholars and activists interested in environmental policy, environmental justice, social and environmental movements.

Author : Deborah Lynn Guber
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0262571609

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The Grassroots of a Green Revolution by Deborah Lynn Guber Pdf

An analysis of Americans' environmental concerns and their willingness to translate their beliefs into action.

Author : Radhika Iyengar,Pooja Iyengar
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781350320086

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Grassroots Approaches to Education for Sustainable Development by Radhika Iyengar,Pooja Iyengar Pdf

This book showcases and compares grassroots environmental education initiatives and actions in Millburn, New Jersey in the USA, and Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh in India. Across the two towns the collective actions discussed include the Fridays For Future strikes, activism through school's 'green team', plastic clean-up missions, conducting workshops, conferences, and organizing green fairs. The authors discuss a range of concepts and ideas that have a broader relevance to local and global environmental education such as global citizenship, climate activism, national and municipal policies, gender, and ecofeminism. They show how the stories of the two towns are connected with sustainable development goals and education for sustainable development. Ultimately the book shows how education can be used as a tool to promote climate change solutions and how this can benefit schools, communities and the planet. The book includes a Foreword written by Ruth DeFries, University Denning Professor of Sustainable Development at Columbia University, USA.