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Environmentalism Unbound: Exploring New Pathways for Change (Urban and Industrial Environments)

Environmentalism Unbound: Exploring New Pathways for Change (Urban and Industrial Environments)

Current price: $40.00
Publication Date: August 2nd, 2002
Publisher:
MIT Press
ISBN:
9780262571661
Pages:
408
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Description

A call for a broadened environmental movement that addresses issues of everyday life.

In Environmentalism Unbound, Robert Gottlieb proposes a new strategy for social and environmental change that involves reframing and linking the movements for environmental justice and pollution prevention. According to Gottlieb, the environmental movement's narrow conception of environment has isolated it from vital issues of everyday life, such as workplace safety, healthy communities, and food security, that are often viewed separately as industrial, community, or agricultural concerns. This fragmented approach prevents an awareness of how these issues are also environmental issues. After tracing a history of environmental perspectives on land and resources, city and countryside, and work and industry, Gottlieb focuses on three compelling examples of this new approach to social and environmental change. The first involves a small industry (dry cleaning) and the debate over pollution prevention approaches; the second involves a set of products (janitorial cleaning supplies) that may be hazardous to workers; and the third explores the obstacles and opportunities presented by community or regional approaches to food supply in the face of an increasingly globalized food system.

About the Author

James Critchlow is an associate of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University.