Local Environmental Struggles: Citizen Activism in the Treadmill of Production - Couverture souple

Gould, Kenneth A.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0521555213 ISBN 13 : 9780521555210

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

The authors analyse the difficulties involved in local environmentalism.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Kenneth A. Gould is Professor and Chair of Sociology at Brooklyn College, and Professor of Sociology, and Earth and Environmental Sciences at the City University of New York Graduate Center. His work focuses on the political economy of environment, technology and development, and is best known for its contribution to the development of the Treadmill of Production model of socio-environmental dynamics. He has published numerous articles examining the responses of communities to environmental problems, the role of socioeconomic inequality in environmental conflicts, environmental social movement coalitions, and the impacts of economic globalization on efforts to achieve sustainable development trajectories. He is co-author of Environment and Society: The Enduring Conflict (1994), The Treadmill of Production: Injustice and Unsustainability in the Global Economy (2008) and Twenty Lessons in Environmental Sociology (2009). His recent work examines ecotourism, labor environmentalism, ecodisaster and green gentrification.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0521555213
• ISBN 13: 9780521555210
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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