Breakthrough Communities

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• Activists, analysts, and practitioners describe innovative strategies that promote healthy neighborhoods, fair housing, and accessible transportation ... Lees meer

China Shifts Gears

Kelly Sims Gallagher

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• Chinese production of automobiles rose from 42,000 cars per year in 1990 to 2.3 million in 2004; the number of passenger vehicles on the road doubled ... Lees meer

Histories of the Dustheap

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• 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

Neighborhood as Refuge

Isabelle Anguelovski

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• An examination of environmental revitalization efforts in low-income communities in Boston, Barcelona, and Havana that help heal traumatized urban nei... Lees meer

Reinventing Los Angeles

Robert Gottlieb

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• Describes how water politics, cars and freeways, and immigration and globalization have shaped Los Angeles, and how innovative social movements are wo... Lees meer

Labor and the Environmental Movement

Brian K Obach

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• Relations between organized labor and environmental groups are typically characterized as adversarial, most often because of the specter of job loss i... Lees meer

Barry Commoner and the Science of Survival

Michael Egan

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• Chronicles the activist career of Barry Commoner, one of the most influential American environmental thinkers, and his role in recasting the environme... Lees meer

New York for Sale

Tom Angotti

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• How community-based planning has challenged the powerful real estate industry in New York City. Remarkably, grassroots-based community planning flouri... Lees meer

Environmentalism Unbound

Robert Gottlieb

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• A call for a broadened environmental movement that addresses issues of everyday life. In Environmentalism Unbound , Robert Gottlieb proposes a new str... Lees meer

Precautionary Tools for Reshaping Environmental Policy

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• The precautionary principle calls for taking action against threatened harm to people and ecosystems even in the absence of full scientific certainty.... Lees meer

The Working Landscape

Peter F Cannavò

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• In America today we see rampant development, unsustainable resource exploitation, and commodification ruin both natural and built landscapes, disconne... Lees meer

Good Green Jobs in a Global Economy

David J Hess

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• An examination of the politics of green jobs that foresees a potential ideological shift away from neoliberalism toward "developmentalism." Good Green... Lees meer

Alternative Pathways in Science and Industry

David J Hess

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• 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

Environmental Inequalities Beyond Borders

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• Case studies demonstrate the spatial disconnect between global consumption and production and its effects on local environmental quality and human rig... Lees meer

Reclaiming the Environmental Debate

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• An expanding array of hazardous substances poses an increasing threat to public health. But what makes our society a toxic culture are the social arra... Lees meer

The Land That Could Be

William A Shutkin

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• Environmentalist and lawyer William Shutkin describes a new kind of environmental and social activism spreading across the nation, one that joins the ... Lees meer

Precautionary Politics

Kerry H Whiteside

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• 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

Rivertown

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• 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

Sustainability on Campus

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• Stories both practical and inspirational about environmental leadership on campus. These personal narratives of greening college campuses offer inspir... Lees meer

Contested Water

Joanna L Robinson

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• An examination of anti-water privatization movements in the United States and Canada that explores the interplay of the local and the global. Attempts... Lees meer

Noxious New York

Julie Sze

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• Examines the culture, politics, and history of the movement for environmental justice in New York City, tracking activism in four neighborhoods on iss... Lees meer

Making Microchips

Jan Mazurek

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• An examination of the environmental and economic implications of the computer microchip industry's exodus from California's Silicon Valley to New Mexi... Lees meer