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Robert Gottlieb Environmentalism Unbound: Exploring New Pathways for Change (Urban & Industrial Environments Series)
The MIT Press 2001 0262072106 / 9780262072106 Hardcover Near fine Near fine Hardcover
New. Near fine in publisher's cloth in like dust jacket. Available in our UK premises for prompt dispatch worldwide.Environmentalism Unbound is a powerful reinterpretation of environmentalism and a trenchant critique of established environmental organizations and the environmental justice movement. Filled with historical insight and practical wisdom, the book serves as a road map for revitalizing America's most important social movements, bringing urban issues, industrial development, the hazards of work, and efforts to achieve livable communities to the center of the debate about society's relation to the natural world. A tough, profoundly inspiring, and optimistic book." - Carl Anthony, Urban Habitat Program and the San Francisco Bay Area Alliance for Sustainable Development".... "Environmentalism Unbound is a powerful reinterpretation of environmentalism and a trenchant critique of established environmental organizations and the environmental justice movement. Filled with historical insight and practical wisdom, the book serves as a road map for revitalizing America's most important social movements, bringing urban issues, industrial development, the hazards of work, and efforts to achieve livable communities to the center of the debate about society's relation to the natural world. A tough, profoundly inspiring, and optimistic book." --Carl Anthony, Urban Habitat Program and the San Francisco Bay Area Alliance for Sustainable Development.... "Environmentalism Unbound is cogent and visionary." -- Chip Ward, Washington Post .... Honorable Mention for Outstanding Book in the Field of Ecological and Transformational Politics 2002 presented by the Organized Section on Ecological and Transformational Politics of the American Political Science Association (APSA)., Selected as a finalist for the 2002 C. Wright Mills Award presented by the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP). and Bronze Award Winner for Environment in the ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Awards..... 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.
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9.08 GBP
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Gottlieb, Robert Reinventing Los Angeles: Nature and Community in the Global City
The MIT Press 2007 0262572435 / 9780262572439 Paperback Near fine n/a Paperback
New. Remainder mark. Near fine in publisher's slightly rubbed and bumped decorated wrappers. Available in our UK premises for prompt dispatch worldwide.Bob Gottlieb is an organizer extraordinaire, a practical visionary, and a tactical genius. When Friends of the Los Angeles River partnered with Occidental College for a year's worth of collaborative events, one of the great pleasures for me was working with Bob, who has an astonishing ability to work not just a system but all kinds of systems for the public good. A lot of people make fun of the idealism of the late 60's, but Gottlieb is one of those whose idealism has only been sharpened and refined by the ensuing years and made more effective. Everybody who reads this book will be inspired to make their community, their city and the world into a better place, I promise." --Lewis MacAdams, Friends of the Los Angeles River"No complaining diatribe, this book proffers solutions and heralds successful programs already in place...Gottlieb dissects and discusses origins, failures, successes, and future ramifications of nature, community, water, transportation, migration, and globalization in the city in a way that is neither preachy nor accusatory, but informative and--I dare say--inspiring." -- Society & Architectural Historians News"Robert Gottlieb has long been a pioneer in redefining environmentalism, turning ideas into action, and forging coalitions in the often murky atmosphere of Los Angeles. This book offers a timely account of the promising work in the City of Angels to forge a political movement that integrates social, economic, and environmental health." --Jennifer Price, author of Flight Maps: Adventures with Nature in Modern America"Robert Gottlieb reminds us that cities, and the political actors within them, can and do change. Los Angeles came of age by shoving nature around. But in these early years of the 21st century, grassroots and community action hint that the environmental future of the city and region may not be so dire. Written by a scholar/activist who has been at the center of much of the recent excitement, this book is a scholarly report, a celebration, and a further call to action." --William Deverell, Department of History and Director, Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West, University of Southern California"With his trenchant examination of the politics of nature and the environment in the global city of Los Angeles, Robert Gottlieb has done us a tremendous service. He demonstrates how determined groups of citizens have been able to refashion Los Angeles' natural environment in innovative ways that not only preserve but expand our core values of conservation and environmental justice. This is a brilliant map charting the green future of our increasingly urban world." --Antonio R. Villaraigosa, Mayor of Los Angeles"[Gottlieb's] richly informative book is really about flow--of resources, people, history--and about how we all need to put our hands into that urban stream as participants directing community, a word he sensibly makes very nearly synonymous with environment." -- Orion Describes how water politics, cars and freeways, and immigration and globalization have shaped Los Angeles, and how innovative social movements are working to make a more livable and sustainable city.
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14.18 GBP
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