Exploring apocalyptica coming to terms with environmental alarmism

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Uekèotter, Frank 1970- (Editor)
Resource Type:	Electronic Resource
Language:	English
Published:	Pittsburgh University of Pittsburgh Press [2018]
Subjects:	Environmental sciences > Philosophy. Environmentalism > Philosophy. Environmentalism > Political aspects. Climatic changes > Government policy > History. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Available for University of the Philippines Diliman via EBSCO. Click here to access Also available remotely for University of the Philippines Diliman via EBSCO. Click here to access thru EZproxy

Table of Contents:

Introduction. The apocalyptic moment : writing about environmental alarmism Frank Uekèotter
Power, politics, and protecting the forest : scares about wood shortages and deforestation in early modern German states Bernd-Stefan Grewe
Grassroots apocalypticism : the great upcoming air pollution disaster in postwar America Frank Uekèotter
"A computer's vision of doomsday" : on the history of the 1972 study The limits to growth Patrick Kupper and Elke Sefried
The sum of all German fears : forest death, environmental activism, and the media in 1980s Germany Frank Uekèotter and Kenneth Anders
The endangered Amazon Rain Forest in the age of ecological crisis Kevin Niebauer
Greenpeace and the Brent Spar campaign : a platform for several truths Anna-Katharina Wèobse
A landscape of multiple emergencies : narratives of the Dal Lake in Kashmir Shalini Panjabi
The Adivasi versus Coca-Cola : a local environmental conflict and its global resonance Bernd-Stefan Grewe.