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

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