Exploring apocalyptica : coming to terms with environmental alarmism /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	JSTOR (Organization)
Other Authors:	Uekötter, Frank, 1970- (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2018]
Subjects:	Environmental sciences > Philosophy. Environmentalism > Philosophy. Environmentalism > Political aspects. Climatic changes > Government policy > History. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction. The apocalyptic moment : writing about environmental alarmism / Frank Uekötter
Power, politics, and protecting the forests : 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 Uekötter
"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 Uekötter 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 Wöbse
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.