Environmental Activism: A Reference Handbook

This volume is part of the Contemporary World Issues series and is included in the sub‐series Politics, Law and Government. It follows the same format as previous books from this series I have reviewed, and, as before, I can say that it is a very easy reference book to use, and that it can be widely recommended to schools, universities, commercial organizations and government.

The book starts by setting the context for environmental activism. There is an outline of the history since 1900. This is followed by a taxonomy of activist groups including mainstream, species and issue specific, deep...