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2016 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

1. Introduction

Author : Chiara Certomà

Published in: Postenvironmentalism

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US

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Abstract

Since its very beginning in the nineteenth century, environmental thinking was characterized by the presence of different interpretations of the relationship between society and nature. The emergence of scientific environmentalism in the 1970s was welcomed as a synthesis bringing together scientific and social perspectives. As a consequence, in a few years environmental thinking reached the peak of public interest giving rise to the green diplomacy of UN summits, grassroots commitment, green political theory and green-business managerialism. However, while the progressive mainstreaming of environmental thinking attracted the most disparate supporters, it also slipped out of environmentalists’ hands, and determined its progressive de-politicization—up to a seemingly death. Is this the very fate of environmentalism?

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The Coordination of European Green and Radical Parties was first organized for European Parliament elections in 1979.
 
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Metadata
Title
Introduction
Author
Chiara Certomà
Copyright Year
2016
Book
Postenvironmentalism

Print ISBN: 978-1-137-50789-1

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-137-50790-7

Copyright Year: 2016

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-50790-7_1