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Environmental sociology: from analysis to action
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Publication Date
2005
Language
English
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Introduction: environmental problems require social solutions / Deborah McCarthy, Leslie King
Vulnerable planet / John Bellamy Foster
Mountaintop removal in West Virginia: an environmental sacrifice zone / Julia Fox
People of the forest against international capitalism: systemic and anti-systemic forces in the battle for the preservation of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest / Luiz C. Barbosa
Tourism, environmentalism, and cultural survival in Quintana Roo / Oriol Pi-Sunyer, R. Brooke Thomas
Treadmill predispositions and social responses: population, consumption, and technological change / Allan Schnaiberg, Kenneth Alan Gould
Oakland's Fruitvale transit village: building an environmentally sound vehicle for neighborhood revitalization / William A. Shutkin
American environmentalism: the role of race, class and gender in shaping activism 1820-1995 / Dorceta E. Taylor
Turning public issues into private troubles: lead contamination, domestic labor, and the exploitation of women's unpaid labor in Australia / Lois Bryson, Kathleen McPhillips, Kathryn Robinson
Environmental justice: grassroots activism and its impact on public policy decision making / Robert D. Bullard, Glenn S. Johnson
Forty years of spotted owls? A longitudinal analysis of logging industry job losses / William R. Freudenburg, Lisa J. Wilson, Daniel J. O'Leary
Next revolutionary stage: recycling waste or recycling history? / David N. Pellow
Silent spill: the organization of an industrial crisis / Thomas D. Beamish
Corporate responsibility for toxins / Gerald Markowitz, David Rosner
Tangled routes: women, work, and globalization on the tomato trail / Deborah Barndt.
Driving south: the globalization of auto consumption and its social organization of space / Peter Freund, George Martin
Environmental justice movement: equitable allocation of the costs and benefits of environmental management outcomes / David N. Pellow, Adam Weinberg, Allan Schnaiberg
Touch the magic / Susan G. Davis
Nature of future myths: environmental discourse in science fiction film, 1950-1999 / Christopher W. Podeschi
Selling "Mother Earth": advertising and the myth of the natural / Robin Andersen
Social construction of cancer: a walk upstream / Sandra Steingraber
Science in environmental conflicts / Connie P. Ozawa
Risk and recruitment: patterns of social mobilization in a government town / Thomas E. Shriver
Transnational protest and the corporate planet: the case of Mitsubishi Corporation versus the Rainforest Action Network / Boris Holzer
Coalition building between Native American and environmental organizations in opposition to development: the case of the New Los Padres Dam project / Mik Moore
Hunting and the politics of identity in Ontario / Thomas Dunk
Special moment in history: the future of population / Bill McKibben
Cuba: a successful case study of sustainable agriculture / Peter M. Rosset
Cleaning the closet: toward a new fashion ethic / Juliet Schor
On the trail of courageous behavior / Myron Peretz Glazer, Penina Migdal Glazer.
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9780742535084
074253507
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074253507
9780742535077
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