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Environmental sociology : from analysis to action
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- Creator
- edited by Leslie King and Deborah McCarthy
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, [2005]
- ©2005
- Physical Details
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- xxx, 487 pages ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780742535077, 074253507X, 9780742535084, 0742535088
- OCLC
- ocm56904270
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction : environmental problems require social solutions / Deborah McCarthy and Leslie King -- 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 -- 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 E. 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 decision making / Robert D. Bullard and Glenn S. Johnson -- 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. The next revolutionary stage : recycling waste or recycling history? / David N. Pellow -- 12. Silent spill : the organization of an industrial crisis / Thomas D. Beamish -- 13. Corporate responsibility for toxins / Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner -- 14. Tangled routes : women, work, and globalization on the tomato trail / 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 -- 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 -- 20. The social construction of cancer : a walk upstream / Sandra Steingraber -- 21. Science in environmental conflicts / Connie P. Ozawa -- 22. Risk and recruitment : patterns of social mobilization in a government town / Thomas E. Shriver -- 23. Transnational protest and the corporate planet : the case of Mitsubishi Corporation versus 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 -- 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 Peretz Glazer and Penina Migdal Glazer