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Title Environmentalism in Central and Southeastern Europe : historical perspectives / edited by Hrvoje Petrić and Ivana Žebec Šilj.

Publication Info. Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2017.

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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Preface; Introduction; Part I: Environmentalism and Environmental Movements; Chapter One: Where Technology and Environmentalism Meet; Chapter Two: Environmental Thought in Slovenia; Chapter Three: Civil Society and Environmental Protection NGOs in Croatia, 1989-2014; Chapter Four: Religion and Ecology in Croatia; Chapter Five: Something Old, Something New; Chapter Six: Environmental Narratives and Sociopolitical Agendas in Greece in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries.
Chapter Seven: The History of Environmental Movements and the Development of Environmental Thought in Turkey, 1850-1980Part II: Nature Protection and Specific Landscapes; Chapter Eight: Man and Nature in Central Europe during the "Long" Nineteenth Century from the Slovak Point of View; Chapter Nine: Protecting the Alps; Chapter Ten: The Origins and Developmental Course of the Plitvice Lakes National Park; Chapter Eleven: Contrasting the "Sunny Side"; Chapter Twelve: The Development of the Concept of Forest Sustainability in Transylvania, the Banat, Bukovina, Moldavia, and Wallachia until 1918.
Summary This collection examines the historical development of society's relationship to the environment in Central and Southeastern Europe. The contributors analyze the growth of environmental consciousness since the eighteenth century, the inception of environmental history as an academic discipline, and the rise of environmental movements in the region.
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Subject Environmentalism -- Europe, Central -- History.
Environmentalism.
Central Europe.
Environmentalism -- Balkan Peninsula -- History.
History.
Balkan Peninsula.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General.
Genre/Form History.
Added Author Petrić, Hrvoje, 1972- editor.
Žebec Šilj, Ivana, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Environmentalism in Central and Southeastern Europe Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2017 9781498527644 (DLC) 2016056929
ISBN 9781498527651 (epub)
1498527655
9781498527644 (cloth : alkaline paper)
1498527647