Title:
Environmental sociology : from analysis to action / edited by Leslie King and Deborah McCarthy.
Main Entry:
King, Leslie, 1959-
McCarthy, Deborah, 1966-
Publisher:
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,
Publication Date:
2005.
Publication Place:
Lanham, Md. :
ISBN:
074253507X (cloth : alk. paper)
9780742535077 (cloth : alk. paper)
0742535088 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780742535084 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject:
ENVIRONMENTALISM -- SOCIAL ASPECTS.
Environmental justice.
Environmentalism -- North America.
âEcologisme -- Aspect social.
Justice environnementale.
âEcologisme -- Amâerique du Nord.
Contents:
Introduction: environmental problems require social solutions / Vulnerable planet / Mountaintop removal in West Virginia: an environmental sacrifice zone / People of the forest against international capitalism: systemic and anti-systemic forces in the battle for the preservation of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest / Tourism, environmentalism, and cultural survival in Quintana Roo / Treadmill predispositions and social responses: population, consumption, and technological change / Oakland's Fruitvale transit village: building an environmentally sound vehicle for neighborhood revitalization / American environmentalism: the role of race, class and gender in shaping activism 1820-1995 / Turning public issues into private troubles: lead contamination, domestic labor, and the exploitation of women's unpaid labor in Australia / Environmental justice: grassroots activism and its impact on public policy decision making / Forty years of spotted owls? A longitudinal analysis of logging industry job losses / Next revolutionary stage: recycling waste or recycling history? / Silent spill: the organization of an industrial crisis / Corporate responsibility for toxins / Tangled routes: women, work, and globalization on the tomato trail /
Driving south: the globalization of auto consumption and its social organization of space / Environmental justice movement: equitable allocation of the costs and benefits of environmental management outcomes / Touch the magic / Nature of future myths: environmental discourse in science fiction film, 1950-1999 / Selling "Mother Earth": advertising and the myth of the natural / Social construction of cancer: a walk upstream / Science in environmental conflicts / Risk and recruitment: patterns of social mobilization in a government town / Transnational protest and the corporate planet: the case of Mitsubishi Corporation versus the Rainforest Action Network / Coalition building between Native American and environmental organizations in opposition to development: the case of the New Los Padres Dam project / Hunting and the politics of identity in Ontario / Special moment in history: the future of population / Cuba: a successful case study of sustainable agriculture / Cleaning the closet: toward a new fashion ethic / On the trail of courageous behavior /
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