en·vi·ron·men·tal·ism

(ĕn-vī′rən-mĕn′tl-ĭz′əm, -vī′ərn-)

1. Advocacy for or work toward protecting the natural environment from destruction or pollution.

2. The theory that environment rather than heredity is the primary influence on intellectual growth and cultural development.

en·vi′ron·men′tal·ist n.

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environmentalism

(ɪnˌvaɪrənˈmɛntəˌlɪzəm)

(Psychology) psychol the belief that a person's behaviour is affected chiefly by his environment. Compare hereditarianism

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

environmentalism

concern for and action on behalf of the environment and its preservation. — environmentalist, n.

environmentalism

[ɪnˌvaɪrənˈmentəlɪzəm] N → ambientalismo m

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environmentalism

[ɪnˌvaɪərənˈmɛnt^əlɪzəm] n → écologisme m

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environmentalism

n → Umweltbewusstsein nt

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Embracing Philanthropic Environmentalism: The Grand Responsibility of Stewardship

Nicole Seymour; BAD ENVIRONMENTALISM; University of Minnesota Press (Nonfiction: Ecology & Environment) 26.95 ISBN: 9781517903893

Bad Environmentalism; Irony and Irreverence in the Ecological Age

Yet, despite the impressive rise of environmentalism over the past 50 years, the pace of ecological degradation has rapidly increased, with effectively every major global environmental indicator moving in the wrong direction.

Peter Dauvergne: Environmentalism of the Rich

In a paragraph titled 'Environnement, nature, ecologie, ecologisme: de quoi parle-t-on?' he explains that his aim is not to cover the complete field of environmentalism, but to focus on nature conservation only.

Remi Luglia, Des savants pour proteger la nature. La societe d'Acclimatation (1854-1960)

Environmentalism is a broad term that can refer to the study of microbes in their environments to much larger issues like the concerns of world populations toward issues relating to air and water quality and more salient now, to global warming.

Are Environmental Concerns an Outcome of Post-Materialist Values? An Exploration and Alternate Perspectives

Free Market Environmentalism for the Next Generation

Applying Coase

This study contributes to the literature by analyzing the rhetorical appeals and techniques utilized by the Resisting the Green Dragon (RGD) movement that employs the value of social well-being to oppose environmentalism. We integrate prominent consumer resistance discourses and religiously charged nationalistic mythical narratives to interpret the RGD phenomenon using rhetorical analysis.

Rhetorical analysis of resistance to environmentalism as enactment of morality play between social and ecological well-being

Loving Nature, Fearing the State: Environmentalism and Antigovernment Politics before Reagan.

Loving Nature, Fearing the State: Environmentalism and Antigovernment Politics before Reagan

Native American Environmentalism: Land, Spirit, and the Idea of Wilderness.

Native American Environmentalism: Land, Spirit, and the Idea of Wilderness

A part from its prehistory, German environmentalism actually starts in the 1970s, following the North American environmentalism.

German environmental policies: an example to the world?

as affecting people's lives." "Environmentalism" it defines as "concern with or advocacy of protection of the environment."

Gospel mandate

A Climate of Crisis: America in the Age of Environmentalism, by Patrick Allitt.

The greening of America

Noun	1.	environmentalism - the philosophical doctrine that environment is more important than heredity in determining intellectual growth philosophical doctrine, philosophical theory - a doctrine accepted by adherents to a philosophy hereditarianism - the philosophical doctrine that heredity is more important than environment in determining intellectual growth
	2.	environmentalism - the activity of protecting the environment from pollution or destruction preservation, saving - the activity of protecting something from loss or danger