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  • The Silicon Valley of Dreams

    Environmental Injustice, Immigrant Workers, and the High-Tech Global Economy

    de Lisa Sun-Hee Park, David Pellow ...
    Series Libro 31 - Critical America
    Examines the environmental racism at the foundation of the Silicon Valley economyNext to the nuclear industry, the largest producer of contaminants in the air, land, and water is the electronics industry. Silicon Valley hosts the highest density of Superfund sites anywhere in the nation and leads the country in the number of temporary workers per capita and in workforce gender inequities. Silicon ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • The Slums of Aspen

    Immigrants vs. the Environment in America’s Eden

    de Lisa Sun-Hee Park, David Pellow ...
    Series Libro 2 - Nation of Nations
    Winner, Allan Schnaiberg Outstanding Publication Award, presented by the Environment & Technology section of the American Sociological AssociationHow the elite ski resort reshaped the socio-economic and demographic landscape in pursuit of profit and pleasureEnvironmentalism usually calls to mind images of peace and serenity, a oneness with nature, and a shared sense of responsibility. But one town ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • Garbage Wars

    The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago

    de David Naguib Pellow ...
    Series series Urban and Industrial Environments
    A study of the struggle for environmental justice, focusing on conflicts over solid waste and pollution in Chicago.In Garbage Wars, the sociologist David Pellow describes the politics of garbage in Chicago. He shows how garbage affects residents in vulnerable communities and poses health risks to those who dispose of it. He follows the trash, the pollution, the hazards, and the people who ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Urban Recycling and the Search for Sustainable Community Development

    de Adam S. Weinberg, David N. Pellow, Allan Schnaiberg ...
    More Americans recycle than vote. And most do so to improve their communities and the environment. But do recycling programs advance social, economic, and environmental goals? To answer this, three sociologists with expertise in urban and environmental planning have conducted the first major study of urban recycling. They compare four types of programs in the Chicago metropolitan area: a community ... Leer más

    $86.39 USD

  • Total Liberation

    The Power and Promise of Animal Rights and the Radical Earth Movement

    de David Naguib Pellow ...
    When in 2001 Earth Liberation Front activists drove metal spikes into hundreds of trees in Gifford Pinchot National Forest, they were protesting the sale of a section of the old-growth forest to a timber company. But ELF’s communiqué on the action went beyond the radical group’s customary brief. Drawing connections between the harms facing the myriad animals who make their home in the trees and ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • What is Critical Environmental Justice?

    de David Naguib Pellow ...
    Human societies have always been deeply interconnected with our ecosystems, but today those relationships witness greater frictions, tensions, and harms than ever before. These dynamics mirror those experienced by marginalized communities across the planet, but they also provide a foundation for transformative thinking and action to address these challenges.In this updated edition of his ... Leer más

    $20.00 USD

  • Treadmill of Production

    Injustice and Unsustainability in the Global Economy

    de Kenneth A. Gould, David N. Pellow, Allan Schnaiberg ...
    Schnaiberg's concept of the treadmill of production is arguably the most visible and enduring theory to emerge in three decades of environmental sociology. Elaborated and tested, it has been found to be an accurate predictor of political-economic changes in the global economy. In the global South, it has figures prominently in the work of structural environmental analysts and has been used by many ... Leer más

    $82.99 USD

  • The Intersectionality of Critical Animal, Disability, and Environmental Studies

    Toward Eco-ability, Justice, and Liberation

    de Judy K.C. Bentley, Sarah Conrad, Amber E. George, Scott Hurley, Aryn Lisitza, John Lupinacci, Mary Ward Lupinacci, Anthony J. Nocella II, Sean Parson0, David N. Pellow1, Sarah Roberts-Cady2, J.L. Schatz3, Gregor Wolbring5 ...
    Series series Critical Animal Studies and Theory
    The Intersectionality of Critical Animal, Disability, and Environmental Studies:Toward Eco-ability, Justice, and Liberation is an interdisciplinary collection of theoretical writings on the intersectional liberation of nonhuman animals, the environment, and those with disabilities. As animal consumption raises health concerns and global warming causes massive environmental destruction, this book ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

  • Challenging the Chip

    Labor Rights and Environmental Justice in the Global Electronics Industry

    Edición de David Pellow, David Sonnenfeld, Ted Smith ...
    From Silicon Valley in California to Silicon Glen in Scotland, from Silicon Island in Taiwan to Silicon Paddy in China, the social, economic, and ecological effects of the international electronics industry are widespread. The production of electronic and computer components contaminates air, land, and water around the globe. As this eye-opening book reveals, the people who suffer the consequences ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • Keywords for Environmental Studies

    Edición de Joni Adamson, William A. Gleason, David Pellow ...
    Series Libro 3 - Keywords
    Introduces key terms, quantitative and qualitative research, debates, and histories for Environmental and Nature StudiesUnderstandings of “nature” have expanded and changed, but the word has not lost importance at any level of discourse: it continues to hold a key place in conversations surrounding thought, ethics, and aesthetics. Nowhere is this more evident than in the interdisciplinary field of ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Handbook of Environmental Sociology

    Edición de Beth Schaefer Caniglia, Andrew Jorgenson, Stephanie A. Malin, Lori Peek, David N. Pellow, Xiaorui Huang ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This handbook defines the contours of environmental sociology and invites readers to push boundaries in their exploration of this important subdiscipline. It offers a comprehensive overview of the evolution of environmental sociology and its role in this era of intensified national and global environmental crises. Its timely frameworks and high-impact chapters will assist in navigating this moment ... Leer más

    $287.99 USD

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  • Ethical Water

    Learning to Value What Matters Most

    de Robert William Sandford ...
    Series series An RMB Manifesto
    Provocative, passionate and populist, RMB Manifestos are short and concise non-fiction books of literary, critical, and cultural studies.Fresh water is essential to both the ever-expanding human population and the ever-threatened natural landscapes that surround us. And yet, society seems to continually ignore the need for a common-sense approach to—and appreciation of—our freshwater resources and ... Leer más

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