• Rahul Reghu

The nature of environmental concern is different from time to time. Conservation and preservation were the main agendas of environmental activism in the pre 1960s, latter it shifted to modern environmentalism in nineteen seventies with the emergence of popular concern of this issue. International concern for protecting natural environment had rapidly increased in nineteen sixties on the back ground of the publication of silent spring by Rachel Carson in 1962 and increased sea pollution by oil spill from the tankers. The modern environmentalism become more powerful especially by the end of 20thcentury.

Environmentalism, Modernism, Conservation, Social Movements

"Evolution of Environmentalism: A Critical Enquiry", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 1, page no.54-59, January-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1901H74.pdf

"Evolution of Environmentalism: A Critical Enquiry", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 1, page no. pp54-59, January-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1901H74.pdf