environmentalism

English

Etymology

From environmental +‎ -ism.

Noun

environmentalism (countable and uncountable, plural environmentalisms)

1. (medicine, social sciences) A theory that views environment, rather than heredity or culture, as the important factor in the development of an individual or group.
   • 1939, Alfred L. Kroeber, “Objectives”, in Cultural and Natural Areas of Native North America, published 1963, page 1:

     The first is that the present work in no sense represents a relapse toward the old environmentalism which believed it could find the causes of culture in environment.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:environmentalism.
2. (politics) A political and social ideology that seeks to prevent the environment from degradation by human activity.
   • 2018, Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism, page 196:

     The need for environmentalisms engaged with the commons rather than relegated to the individual consumer or tied to the middle-class principles of private property.

Hyponyms

(politics):

• ecocapitalism
• ecosocialism

Related terms

• antienvironmentalism
• enviro-
• environment
• environmental
• environmentalist

Translations

ideology seeking to prevent the degradation of environment

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 環境保護主義／环境保护主义 (huánjìng bǎohù zhǔyì)

• Finnish: environmentalismi
• French: écologisme (fr) m, environnementalisme (fr) m
• Galician: ecoloxismo m
• German: Ökologismus m
• Hungarian: környezetvédelem (hu)
• Italian: ambientalismo (it) m, ecologismo (it) m
• Japanese: 環境主義 (かんきょうしゅぎ,. kankyōshugi)
• Macedonian: природозаштита f pl (prirodozaštita)
• Portuguese: ambientalismo, ecologismo m
• Romanian: ecologism n
• Russian: энвайронментали́зм (ru) m (envajronmentalízm), экологи́зм (ru) m (ekologízm)
• Spanish: ecologismo m, ambientalismo (es) m
• Turkish: çevrecilik (tr)