Green Germany

Carol Hager is a professor in the Environmental Studies and Political Science Departments at Bryn Mawr College. Previous publications include Technological Democracy: Bureaucracy and Citizenry in the German Energy Debate (1995), NIMBY is Beautiful: Cases of Local Activism and Environmental Innovation Around the World (co-edited, 2015), and Germany's Energy Transition: A Comparative Perspective (co-edited, 2016). Thomas M. Lekan is a professor in the History Department and the School of Earth, Ocean & Environment at the University of South Carolina. He has authored Imagining the Nation in Nature: Landscape Preservation and German Identity (2004) and Our Gigantic Zoo: A German Quest to Save the Serengeti (2020), which received the German Studies Association's DAAD Book Prize for History and the Social Sciences.

• List of Figures; Preface; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Local Pathways to Global Sustainability; 1. From Anti-Nuclear Protest to 'Solar Region': Local Origins of the German Energiewende; 2. Save the Streetcar! How a 'Technological Fossil' Transformed Frankfurt into a Greener City; 3. Freiburg's Vauban: From Military Barracks to Social-Ecological Model District; 4. East Germany's Last Act: The National Park Program of the GDR; 5. Berlin's Mauerpark: From Ruins to Public Green Spaces; Conclusion: Looking Forward, Looking Back: Green Germany in the Era of Climate Change; Endnotes; Index.