The Working Landscape

Peter F Cannavò

• Hardcover | Engels | Urban and Industrial Environments (Hardcover)
• In America today we see rampant development, unsustainable resource exploitation, and commodification ruin both natural and built landscapes, disconne... Lees meer

Technoscience and Environmental Justice

• Hardcover | Engels | Urban and Industrial Environments (Hardcover)
• Case studies exploring how experts' encounters with environmental justice are changing technical and scientific practice. Over the course of nearly th... Lees meer

The Globalization of Clean Energy Technology

Kelly Sims Gallagher

• Hardcover | Engels | Urban and Industrial Environments (Hardcover)
• An examination of barriers that impede and incentives that motivate the global development and deployment of cleaner energy technologies, with case st... Lees meer

Precautionary Politics

Kerry H Whiteside

• Hardcover | Engels | Urban and Industrial Environments (Hardcover)
• The precautionary principle--which holds that action to address threats of serious or irreversible environmental harm should be taken even in the abse... Lees meer

Alternative Pathways in Science and Industry

David J Hess

• Hardcover | Engels | Urban and Industrial Environments (Hardcover)
• In Alternative Pathways in Science and Industry , David Hess examines how social movements and other forms of activism affect innovation in science, t... Lees meer

The Enclave Economy

Kevin P Gallagher, Lyuba Zarsky

• Hardcover | Engels | Urban and Industrial Environments (Hardcover)
• Analyzes the extent to which foreign investment in Mexico's information technology sector brought economic, social, and environmental benefits to Guad... Lees meer

Localist Movements in a Global Economy

David J Hess

• Hardcover | Engels | Urban and Industrial Environments (Hardcover)
• An overview of the localist movement in the United States, from "buy local" campaigns to urban agriculture, and its potential for addressing global pr... Lees meer

Environmental Justice and Environmentalism

• Hardcover | Engels | Urban and Industrial Environments (Hardcover)
• Analysis and case studies from interdisciplinary perspectives explore the possibility and desirability of collaboration between the grassroots-oriente... Lees meer

Rivertown

• Hardcover | Engels | Urban and Industrial Environments (Hardcover)
• Examines efforts in Los Angeles, Washington DC, Chicago, Salt Lake City, San Jose, and other cities to reclaim postindustrial urban riverside land for... Lees meer

Environmentalism Unbound

Robert Gottlieb

• Hardcover | Engels | Urban and Industrial Environments (Hardcover)
• In Environmentalism Unbound, Robert Gottlieb proposes a new strategy for social and environmental change that involves reframing and linking the movem... Lees meer

Histories of the Dustheap

• Hardcover | Engels | Urban and Industrial Environments (Hardcover)
• An examination of how garbage reveals the relationships between the global and the local, the economic and the ecological, and the historical and the ... Lees meer