Search the library catalog for:
bioregionalism
environmental justice
Los Angeles River (Calif.) Environmental conditions.
Search for online books in Pepperdine Libraries collection of EBL e-books
You'll find books like these:
Read articles including:
"Thirteen Ways of Seeing Nature in L.A." by Jenny Price
"Rethinking Environmental Racism" by Laura Pulido
Check the library catalog for print books such as:
Visit web sites for organizations including:
Malibu Creek Watershed Council includes Living Lightly in our Watersheds resource book
Heal the Bay - especially their report on Malibu Creek Watershed: Ecosystem on the Brink
Las Virgines Municipal Water District - section on Malibu Creek Watershed, including link to YouTube video
LA River Index: a healthy river for all
In addition to the EBL e-book collection, other online books can be found in the library catalog. For example:
A Dictionary of Human Geography gives us this definition of bioregionalism:
An environmentalist belief that human societies should adapt to living harmoniously within bioregions. These are territories defined by natural rather than political conditions. A bioregion can be defined as an area in which topography, soils, plant and animal life, climate, weather, and human culture are relatively homogeneous and integrated. It may correspond with a watershed. The concept was formulated by environmentalist Peter Berg and ecologists Raymond Dasmann in 1970s northern California, but has not been taken up much beyond North America. Although bioregions share many of the ideas of classical regional geography, human geographers have not developed the idea.
Check Biography in Context and Gale Virtual Reference Library for information about key writers on bioregionalism:
Peter Berg [read his article about bioregionalism defined]
Raymond Dasmann
Gary Snyder
Kirkpatrick Sale [read: "Bioregionalism - a sense of place." The Nation 12 Oct. 1985: 336+. Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Web.]
Robert Thayer
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