The Role of Environmentalism in Social Development

Dear Colleagues,

Environmentalism, a broad environmental philosophy and movement, is one of the most dynamic, pervasive, and transnational social movements today. It has, however, no clear beginning. The movement emerged in different places at different times, and usually for different reasons. The earliest environmental issues were local (McCormick 1989). Now, environmentalism goes beyond the literary appreciation of landscapes, and the scientific analysis of species. It is “a social program, a charter of action, which seeks to protect cherished habitats, protest against their degradation, and prescribe less destructive technologies and lifestyles (Guha 2000:3).

This special issue “The Role of Environmentalism in Social Development” will not only focus on dynamics of environmentalism and its narratives but also examine its impacts on social development such as: how it generates millions of supporters, changes the way people live, generates new body of knowledge, encourages a rethinking of economic priorities, brings new political parties and broad environmental agendas in the mainstream political parties, becomes an issue in international relations, and makes people feel that nature is finite and misuse of it threatens human existence.

We will welcome conceptual, theoretical, and empirical works related to diverse contours of environmentalism and their impacts on social development.

Dr. Md Saidul ISLAM
Guest Editor

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• Dynamics of environmentalism
• New Ecological Paradigm
• Ecological Marxism
• Spaceship Earth
• Global Commons
• Deep Ecology
• Environmentalism and Climate Change
• Environmentalism of the Poor
• Religious Environmentalism
• Not In My Back Yard (NIMBY)
• Ecological Modernization
• Environmental Justice
• Green Party
• Green Consumerism
• Environmentalism of the Rich

References

1. Bookchin, Murray (1980). Towards an Ecological Society. Montreal: Black Rose Books.
2. Bullard, Robert (1990). Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class and Environmental Quality. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
3. Conca, Ken and Geoffrey D. Dabelko (eds.) (1998). Green Planet Blues: Environmental Politics from Stockholm to Kyoto. Bounder, Colorado: Westview Press.
4. Gibson, Donald (2002). Environmentalism: Ideology and Power. New York: Vova Science Publishers, Inc.
5. Guha, Ramachandra (2000). Environmentalism: A Global History. New York: Longman.
6. McCormick, John (1989). The Global Environmental Movement. London: Belhaven Press.
7. Shiva, Vandana and Maria Mies (1993). Ecofeminism. London: Zed Books