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Resources: Abstracts of American Studies Dissertations
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Kinch, John A. "The Biodiversity Mission in American Environmentalism," American Studies Program, Michigan State University, May 1996.
Known only to biologists as recently as the 1980s, “biodiversity loss” has grown into a cause within American Environmentalism in the 1990s. In the United States in particular, the “Biodiversity Mission” is revolutionizing conservation science and environmental politics. This dissertation examines the mechanisms and reasons for biodiversity’s popularity among experts and the public, arguing that this science-based cause is reinvigorating older concerns, such as species and wilderness preservation, with potent new data, ethical imperatives, cutting-edge conservation science, sophisticated public relations, and mainstream political agendas.
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