Reinventing Los Angeles

Robert Gottlieb

• Paperback | Engels | Urban and Industrial Environments (Paperback)
• Describes how water politics, cars and freeways, and immigration and globalization have shaped Los Angeles, and how innovative social movements are wo... Lees meer

Environmentalism Unbound

Robert Gottlieb

• Paperback | Engels | Urban and Industrial Environments (Paperback)
• A call for a broadened environmental movement that addresses issues of everyday life. In Environmentalism Unbound , Robert Gottlieb proposes a new str... Lees meer

Labor and the Environmental Movement

Brian K Obach

• Paperback | Engels | Urban and Industrial Environments (Paperback)
• Relations between organized labor and environmental groups are typically characterized as adversarial, most often because of the specter of job loss i... Lees meer

The Working Landscape

Peter F Cannavò

• Paperback | Engels | Urban and Industrial Environments (Paperback)
• In America today we see rampant development, unsustainable resource exploitation, and commodification ruin both natural and built landscapes, disconne... Lees meer

Sustainability on Campus

• Paperback | Engels | Urban and Industrial Environments (Paperback)
• Stories both practical and inspirational about environmental leadership on campus. These personal narratives of greening college campuses offer inspir... Lees meer

Contested Water

Joanna L Robinson

• Paperback | Engels | Urban and Industrial Environments (Paperback)
• An examination of anti-water privatization movements in the United States and Canada that explores the interplay of the local and the global. Attempts... Lees meer

Precautionary Tools for Reshaping Environmental Policy

• Paperback | Engels | Urban and Industrial Environments (Paperback)
• The precautionary principle calls for taking action against threatened harm to people and ecosystems even in the absence of full scientific certainty.... Lees meer

Barry Commoner and the Science of Survival

Michael Egan

• Paperback | Engels | Urban and Industrial Environments (Paperback)
• Chronicles the activist career of Barry Commoner, one of the most influential American environmental thinkers, and his role in recasting the environme... Lees meer

Breakthrough Communities

• Paperback | Engels | Urban and Industrial Environments (Paperback)
• Activists, analysts, and practitioners describe innovative strategies that promote healthy neighborhoods, fair housing, and accessible transportation ... Lees meer

China Shifts Gears

Kelly Sims Gallagher

• Paperback | Engels | Urban and Industrial Environments (Paperback)
• Chinese production of automobiles rose from 42,000 cars per year in 1990 to 2.3 million in 2004; the number of passenger vehicles on the road doubled ... Lees meer

Making Microchips

Jan Mazurek

• Paperback | Engels | Urban and Industrial Environments (Paperback)
• An examination of the environmental and economic implications of the computer microchip industry's exodus from California's Silicon Valley to New Mexi... Lees meer

Reclaiming the Environmental Debate

• Paperback | Engels | Urban and Industrial Environments (Paperback)
• An expanding array of hazardous substances poses an increasing threat to public health. But what makes our society a toxic culture are the social arra... Lees meer