THE ORIGINS OF MODERN ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISM IN PUERTO RICO IN THE 1960s

CONCEPCION, CARMEN M.

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF URBAN AND REGIONAL RESEARCH, n.º 1/1995, pág. 112

1. Economic and political context. 1. The mining project. 2. Opposition to the mining project. 3. Government reaction to mining opposition. 4. The achievements of the opposition. 5. The first environmental group. 6. Lessons from the political character of Puerto Rican environmentalism. 7. Environmentalism nowadays. 8. References.