This work aims to provide an overview of the progress of the US environmentalist movement over the last 20 years. It asks why environmentalism has been able to avoid the fate of most short-lived movements and how it has changed since the first

Chapter 1 The Evolution of the U.S. Environmental Movement from 1970 to 1990: An Overview, Riley E. Dunlap, Angela G. Mertig; Chapter 2 Twenty Years of Environmental Mobilization: Trends Among National Environmental Organizations, Robert Cameron Mitchell, Angela G. Mertig, Riley E. Dunlap; Chapter 3 Not in Our Backyards: The Grassroots Environmental Movement, Nicholas Freudenberg, Carol Steinsapir; Chapter 4 The Quest for Environmental Equity: Mobilizing the African-American Community for Social Change, Robert D. Bullard, Beverly H. Wright; Chapter 5 Deep Ecology and Radical Environmentalism, Bill Devall; Chapter 6 Globalizing Environmentalism: Threshold of a New Phase in International Relations, Lynton K. Caldwell; Chapter 7 Twenty Years of Change in the Environmental Movement: An Insider’s View, Michael McCloskey; Chapter 8 Trends in Public Opinion Toward Environmental Issues: 1965–1990, Riley E. Dunlap;