Local Environmental Struggles: Citizen Activism in the Treadmill of Production - Hardcover

Gould, Kenneth A.; Schnaiberg, Allan; Weinberg, Adam S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521555191 ISBN 13: 9780521555197

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1996

Synopsis

In recent years, environmentalism in the United States has increasingly emerged at the community level, focusing on local ecological problems. The authors critique the modern environmental mantra, "think globally, act locally," by analyzing the opportunities and constraints on local environmental action posed by economic and political structures at all levels. Three case studies--a wetlands protection project, water pollution of the Great Lakes, and consumer waste recycling--demonstrate the challenges facing citizen-worker movements.

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Book Description

Three case studies--a wetlands protection project, water pollution of the Great Lakes, and consumer waste recycling--demonstrate the opportunities and constraints on local environmental action posed by economic and political structures at all levels.

About the Author

Kenneth A. Gould is Professor and Chair of Sociology at Brooklyn College, and Professor of Sociology, and Earth and Environmental Sciences at the City University of New York Graduate Center. His work focuses on the political economy of environment, technology and development, and is best known for its contribution to the development of the Treadmill of Production model of socio-environmental dynamics. He has published numerous articles examining the responses of communities to environmental problems, the role of socioeconomic inequality in environmental conflicts, environmental social movement coalitions, and the impacts of economic globalization on efforts to achieve sustainable development trajectories. He is co-author of Environment and Society: The Enduring Conflict (1994), The Treadmill of Production: Injustice and Unsustainability in the Global Economy (2008) and Twenty Lessons in Environmental Sociology (2009). His recent work examines ecotourism, labor environmentalism, ecodisaster and green gentrification.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0521555191
• ISBN 13: 9780521555197
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256