Green Power: The Environment Movement in AustraliaPresents a history and analysis of everyday events in the environmental movement down under, together with an array of theories held by social movements, non-institutional and non-governmental organizations, and informal networks and groups. Doyle (geographical and environmental studies, U. of Adelaide) also provides a chronology of the movement since the 1960s, traces the roots of the early wilderness and anti-nuclear networks, and travels through the Hawke years when environmental concern was incorporated into politics and business-as-usual. Finally, Doyle turns towards the environmental movement under the Howard government where it has been intensely challenged by the "wise use" movement, or what Doyle terms the "Gang Bang Theory of Nature." Distributed by ISBS. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
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