From the Ground Up: Environmental Racism and the Rise of the Environmental Justice Movement, Paperback - Luke W. Cole

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Luke W. ColeAuthor: Sheila R. FosterWhen Bill Clinton signed an Executive Order on Environmental Justice in 1994, the pheno...

Reducere. Rachel Carson's Silent Spring antagonized some of the most powerful interests in the nation--including the farm block and the agricultural chemical...

An urgent and timely story of the contentious politics of incorporating environmental justice into global climate change policy Although the scienc...

Reducere. In this sweeping social history Dorceta E. Taylor examines the emergence and rise of the multifaceted U.S. conservation movement from the mid-ninet...

Association for Humanist Sociology 2007 Book Award co-winnerJulian Steward Award 2006 Runner-Up Over the past two decades, environmental racism has...

Reducere. Social work is the profession that claims to intervene to enhance people's well-being. However, social workers have played a low-key role in enviro...

The ​inspiring people and grassroots​ ​organizations​ ​that are on​ ​the​ ​front​ ​lines​ ​of​ ​the​ ​battle​ ​to save the ​​planet As the world's ...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Tracy E. PerkinsIllustration(s): 24 b-w photographs 1 map 1 tableNumber of pages: 302Publicatio...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Peter J. BowlerThis authoritative volume chronicles humanity's long quest to understand its own origins. Peter J. Bowler br...

Reducere. From the First National People of Color Congress on Environmental Leadership to WTO street protests of the new millennium, environmental justice ac...

Reducere. From the beginning of California's statehood, adventurers, scientists, and writers reveled in its majestic landscape. Some were women, though few g...

Reducere. This book examines and encourages the increasing involvement of those in the social sciences, including social work, as well as everyday citizens, ...

Reducere. In 1958, Edward Teller, father of the H-bomb, unveiled his plan to detonate six nuclear bombs off the Alaskan coast to create a new harbor. However...

Reducere. Although the seasons have been a perennial theme in literature and art, their significance for philosophy and environmental theory has remained lar...

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When Jeanne Nolan, a teenager in search of a less materialistic, more authentic existence, left Chicago in 1987 to join a communal farm, she had no...

DescriptionAn expansive investigation into the relationship between contemporary states and the far-rightIt is clear that the right is on the rise,...

"Documents and evaluates Fair Trade's achievements to date, following Fair Trade products from their origins to their destinations along global val...

Reducere. The Great Depression coincided with a wave of natural disasters, including the Dust Bowl and devastating floods of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers....

The history of the twentieth century is most often told through its world wars, the rise and fall of communism, or its economic upheavals. In his s...

Reducere. The first of its kind, this anthology of eighty international primary literary texts--poems, short stories, personal essays, testimonials, activist...

'Fascinating … this collection illuminates corners of the wartime world … it provides a valuable and often entertaining window' GUARDIAN'The horror...

Too often, economics disassociates humans from nature, the economy from the biosphere that contains it, and sustainability from fairness. When econ...

"Rethinking the American Environmental Movement post-1945 draws on new histories of local environmental activism to analyze actions of those who he...

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Reducere. Dennis Banks, an American Indian of the Ojibwa Tribe and a founder of the American Indian Movement, is one of the most influential Indian leaders o...

A compelling exploration of the mysteries of environmental toxicity and the community of "sensitives"--people with powerful, puzzling symptoms resu...

Reducere. A Wild Idea shares the complete story of the difficult birth of the Adirondack Park Agency (APA). The Adirondack region of New York's rural North C...

The natural wealth of the Amazon and Andes has long attracted fortune seekers, from explorers, farmers, and gold panners to multimillion-dollar min...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Daniel P. SelmiIllustration(s): 17 halftonesNumber of pages: 344Publication date: 2022Dimensio...

Reducere. From the Ground Up is the journey of real estate magnate Dan Hoffler, a person from a very modest family, a kid with average grades and a big smile...