| Description |
xxx, 487 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Table of Contents -- I. Preface -- II. Introduction, "Environmental Problems Require Social Solutions" (Deborah McCarthy and Leslie King) -- III. Politics and Economy -- 1. The Vulnerable Planet -- John Bellamy Foster -- 2. Mountaintop Removal in West Virginia: An Environmental Sacrifice Zone -- Julia Fox -- 3. The 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 -- 4. Tourism, Environmentalism, and Cultural Survival in Quintana Roo -- Oriol Pi-Sunyer and R. Brooke Thomas -- 5. Treadmill Predispositions and Social Responses: Population, Consumption, and Technological Change -- Allan Schnaiberg and Kenneth Alan Gould -- IV. Environmental Justice: Race, Class and Gender -- 6. Oakland's Fruitvale Transit Village: Building an Environmentally Sound Vehicle for Neighborhood Revitalization -- William A. Shutkin -- 7. American Environmentalism: The Role of Race, Class and Gender in Shaping Activism 1820-1995 - Dorceta Taylor -- 8. Turning Public Issues into Private Troubles: Lead Contamination, Domestic Labor, and the Exploitation of Women's Unpaid Labor in Australia -- Lois Bryson, Kathleen McPhillips, and Kathryn Robinson -- 9. Environmental Justice: Grassroots Activism and Its Impact on Public Policy in Decision Making - Robert D. Bullard and Glenn S. Johnson -- III. Work -- 10. Forty Years of Spotted Owls? A Longitudinal Analysis of Logging Industry Job Losses -- William R. Freudenburg, Lisa J. Wilson, and Daniel J. O'Leary -- 11. Garbage Wars -- David Naguib Pellow -- VI. Corporate Responsibility -- 12. Silent Spill: The Organization of an Industrial Crisis -- Thomas Beamish -- 13. Corporate Responsibility for Toxins -- Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner -- VII. Globalization -- 14. Across Space and Through Time: Tomatl Meets the Corporate Tomato -- Deborah Barndt -- 15. Driving South: the Globalization of Auto Consumption and Its Social Organization of Space -- Peter Freund and George Martin -- 16. The Environmental Justice Movement: Equitable Allocation of the Costs and Benefits of Environmental Management Outcomes -- David N. Pellow, Adam Weinberg, and Allan Schnaiberg -- VIII. Media and Popular Culture -- 17. Touch the Magic -- Susan G. Davis -- 18. The Nature of Future Myths: Environmental Discourse in Science Fiction Film, 1950-1999 -- Christopher W. Podeschi -- 19. Selling 'Mother Earth': Advertising and the Myth of the Natural -- Robin Andersen -- IX. Science and Health -- 20. The Social Construction of Cancer -- Sandra Steingraber -- 21. Science in Environmental Conflicts -- Connie P. Ozawa -- X. Social Movements -- 22. Risk and Recruitment: Patterns of Social Movement Mobilization in a Government Town -- Thomas E. Shriver -- 23. Transnational Protest and the Corporate Planet: The Case of Mitsubishi Corporation vs. The Rainforest Action Network -- Boris Holzer -- 24. Coalition Building between Native American and Environmental Organizations in Opposition to Development: The Case of the New Los Padres Dam Project -- Mik Moore -- 25. Hunting and the Politics of Identity in Ontario -- Thomas Dunk -- XI. Thinking about Change and Working for Change -- 26. A Special Moment in History: the Future of Population -- Bill McKibben -- 27. Cuba: A Successful Case Study of Sustainable Agriculture" -- Peter M. Rosset -- 28. Cleaning the Closet: Toward a New Fashion Ethic -- Juliet Schor -- 29. On the Trail of Courageous Behavior -- Myron P. Glazer and Penina M. Glazer |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Environmental sociology.
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Environmental responsibility.
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Environmentalism -- Social aspects.
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Environmental justice.
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Environmentalism -- North America.
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| Genre/Form |
Aufsatzsammlung
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| Author |
King, Leslie, 1959-
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Auriffeille, Deborah McCarthy, 1966-
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| LC no. |
2004025145 |
| ISBN |
074253507X cloth alkaline paper |
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0742535088 paperback alkaline paper |
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