Citations:environmentalism

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English citations of environmentalism

theory that views environment as the primary factor in the development of an individual or group

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  • 1939, Alfred L. Kroeber, “Objectives”, in Cultural and Natural Areas of Native North America, published 1963, page 1:
    The first is that the present work in no sense represents a relapse toward the old environmentalism which believed it could find the causes of culture in environment.
  • 1963, Robert F. Heizer, “Foreword”, in Cultural and Natural Areas of Native North America, published 1963, page v:
    A reaction to the older crude environmentalism which sought for cultural causes in imperatives of the environment had resulted in part from E. Semple's attempt to promote the theories of Ratzel.

ideology that seeks to prevent the environment from degradation by human activity

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