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  • Environmental Crisis

    Working for Sustainable Knowledge and Environmental Justice

    by Bunyan Bryant ...
    Over the years, we have witness unprecedented growth and development that threatens our planet earth as evidenced by environmental degradation, world poverty all of which will be exacerbated by climate change. "Environmental Crisis or Crisis of Epistemology?" explores the ideas that environmental destruction and injustice is integrally related to unsustainable knowledge and the role that knowledge ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Michigan

    A State of Environmental Justice?

    by Bunyan Bryant, Elaine Hockman ...
    Michigan: A State of Environmental Justice? focuses attention on the byproducts of growth and development in the state of Michigan and describes who wins and who loses. Over the years while growth and development have been good for some, it has been devastating for others; the byproducts of growth and development have threatened the lives of people who breathe polluted air, who are exposed to ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Educator and Activist

    My Life and Times in the Quest for Environmental Justice

    by Bunyan Bryant ...
    Bunyan Bryant grew up in a poor neighborhood in Little Rock, Arkansas, where the streets were unpaved and where Blacks like him had to step aside when a white person walked by. By the time he was eight years old, his family had moved to Flint, Michigan, where the racism was less overt but the schooling was, if anything, a little worse for this bright but soon to be alienated Black youngster.Bryant ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Environmental Justice

    Issues, Policies, and Solutions

    by Roger Bezdek, Deeohn Ferris, Jamal Kadri, Robert Wolcott, William Drayton, Kelly Alley, Charles E. Faupel, Cathy Solheim, Connor Bailey, J. Mark Fly, Frances Larkin, Rebecca Head, Patrick C. West, Dorrie Rosenblatt, Robert Marans, Tom B.K. Goldtooth, David Ostendorf, Beverly Wright, David Hahn Baker ...
    In Environmental Justice, leading thinkers of the environmental justice movement take a direct look at the failure of "top down" public policy to effectively deal with issues of environmental equity.The book provides a startling look at pressing social and environmental problems and charts a course for future action. Among the topics considered are: the history of the social justice movement the ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Race And The Incidence Of Environmental Hazards

    A Time For Discourse

    by Bunyan Bryant, Paul Mohai ...
    This book discusses the poor and people of color and their struggle to take control of one of the most basic aspects of their lives: the quality of their environment. It exposes the fact of environmental inequity and its consequences in face of general neglect by policymakers and social scientists. ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

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  • The Path to a Livable Future

    A New Politics to Fight Climate Change, Racism, and the Next Pandemic

    by Stan Cox ...
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  • Poverty And The Environment: Understanding Linkages At The Household Level

    by World Bank ...
    Drawing upon recent analytical work prepared inside and outside the World Bank, this report identifies key lessons concerning the linkages between poverty and the environment. With a focus on the contribution of environmental resources to household welfare, the analysis increases our understanding of how specific reforms and interventions can have an impact on the health and livelihoods of poor ... Read more

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  • The Built Environment and Public Health

    by Russell P. Lopez ...
    Series Book 16 - Public Health/Environmental Health
    THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC HEALTHThe Built Environment and Public Health explores the impact on our health of the environments we build for ourselves, and how public health and urban planning can work together to build settings that promote healthy living. This comprehensive text covers origins and foundations of the built environment as a public health focus and its joint history with urban ... Read more

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  • Africa Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition 2018: Addressing the Threat from Climate Variability and Extremes for Food Security and Nutrition

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    The worsening situation in Africa is due to difficult global economic conditions and, in many countries, conflict and climate-related disasters, sometimes in combination. Economic growth slowed in 2016 due to weak commodity prices, in particular for oil and minerals. Food insecurity has worsened in countries affected by conflict, often exacerbated by drought or floods, and in Southern and Eastern ... Read more

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  • Hungry for Profit

    The Agribusiness Threat to Farmers, Food, and the Environment

    Edited by Fred Magdoff, John Bellamy Foster, Frederick H. Buttel ...
    Millions go hungry every year in both poor and rich nations, yet hundreds of thousands of peasants and farmers continue to be pushed off the land. Applied in increasing volumes, chemical pesticides and synthetic fertilizers deplete the soil, pollute our food and water, and leave crops more vulnerable to pest outbreaks. The new and expanding use of genetically engineered seeds threatens species ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Food Security, Agricultural Policies and Economic Growth

    Long-term Dynamics in the Past, Present and Future

    by Niek Koning ...
    Series series Earthscan Food and Agriculture
    Using a political-economic approach supplemented with insights from human ecology, this volume analyzes the long-term dynamics of food security and economic growth. The book begins by discussing the nature of preindustrial food crises and the changes that have occurred since the 19th century with the ascent of technical science and the fossil fuel revolution. It explains how these changes improved ... Read more

    $70.99 USD