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“There is a rejuvenation of environmentalism as a paradigm in geographical studies.” Comment.

  • UPSC 2015
  • Perspectives in Human Geography

Environmentalism in geography is the family of frameworks that place the human–environment relationship at the discipline's analytical centre, treating nature not as a backdrop to spatial patterns but as an active term in the explanation.

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  • The Original Paradigm and Its Discrediting
  • The Interregnum — Marginalisation, Not Extinction
  • The Evidence for Rejuvenation
  • Political Ecology — the strand that made environmentalism theoretically respectable again
  • Sustainability, Commons and Resilience
  • Climate Change as the Reorganising Problem
  • …and 7 more sections, with a conclusion

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