Environmentalism Unbound: Exploring New Pathways for Change - Couverture rigide

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Gottlieb, Robert

 
9780262072106: Environmentalism Unbound: Exploring New Pathways for Change
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ISBN 10 : 0262072106 ISBN 13 : 9780262072106
Editeur : The MIT Press, 2001

Synopsis

A call for a broadened environmental movement that addresses issues of everyday life.

In Environmentalism Unbound, Robert Gottlieb proposes a new strategy for social and environmental change that involves reframing and linking the movements for environmental justice and pollution prevention. According to Gottlieb, the environmental movement's narrow conception of environment has isolated it from vital issues of everyday life, such as workplace safety, healthy communities, and food security, that are often viewed separately as industrial, community, or agricultural concerns. This fragmented approach prevents an awareness of how these issues are also environmental issues. After tracing a history of environmental perspectives on land and resources, city and countryside, and work and industry, Gottlieb focuses on three compelling examples of this new approach to social and environmental change. The first involves a small industry (dry cleaning) and the debate over pollution prevention approaches; the second involves a set of products (janitorial cleaning supplies) that may be hazardous to workers; and the third explores the obstacles and opportunities presented by community or regional approaches to food supply in the face of an increasingly globalized food system.

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À propos de l'auteur

Robert Gottlieb is Emeritus Professor of Urban & Environmental Policy and founder and former Director of the Urban and Environmental Policy Institute at Occidental College. He is the author of Reinventing Los Angeles: Nature and Community in the Global City (MIT Press) and other books.

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Éditeur
The MIT Press
Date d'édition
2001
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0262072106
ISBN 13 
9780262072106
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
408
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ISBN 10 :  0262571668 ISBN 13 :  9780262571661
Editeur : MIT Press, 2002
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