Celebrity and the Environment: Fame, Wealth and Power in Conservation

by Dan Brockington

Book Overview

The battle to save the world is being joined by a powerful new group of warriors. Celebrities are lending their name to conservation causes, and conservation itself is growing its own stars to fight and speak for nature. In this timely and essential book, Dan Brockington argues that this alliance grows from the mutually supportive publicity celebrity and conservation causes provide for each other, and more fundamentally, that the flourishing of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1842779745
• ISBN13: 9781842779743
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: Zed Books
• Length: 205 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 8.4"