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Risk And Adaptation In A Cancer Cluster Town

by Laura Hart

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 Using a cancer cluster community in Northwest Ohio as a case study, Laura Hart advances an approach to risk that grapples with the complexities of community belonging, disconnect, and disruption in the wake of suspected industrial pollution.
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Growing Gardens, Building Power - Food Justice And Urban Agriculture In Brooklyn

by Justin Sean Myers

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 Across the United States marginalized communities are organizing to address social, economic, and environmental inequities through building community food systems rooted in the principles of social justice. But how exactly are communities doing this work, why are residents tackling these issues through food, what are their successes, and what barriers are they encountering? This book dives into the heart of the food justice movement through an exploration of East New York Farms! (ENYF!), one of the oldest food justice organizations in Brooklyn, and one that emerged from a bottom-up asset-oriented development model. It details the food inequities the community faces and what produced them, how and why residents mobilized to turn vacant land into community gardens, and the struggles the organization has encountered as they worked to feed residents through urban farms and farmers markets. This book also discusses how through the politics of food justice, ENYF! has challenged the growth-oriented development politics of City Hall, opposed the neoliberalization of food politics, navigated the funding constraints of philanthropy and the welfare state, and opposed the entrance of a Walmart into their community. Through telling this story, Growing Gardens, Building Power offers insights into how the food justice movement is challenging the major structures and institutions that seek to curtail the transformative power of the food justice movement and its efforts to build a more just and sustainable world.
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Has It Come To This? - The Promises And Perils Of Geoengineering On The Brink

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 The editors set out the diverse collection of voices in this volume not as a monolithic, unified take on geoengineering, but as a place where creative thinkers, students, and interested environmental and social justice advocates can explore nuanced ideas in more than 240 characters.
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Flooded - Development, Democracy, And Brazil’S Belo Monte Dam

by Peter Taylor Klein

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 Tells the stories of dam-affected communities, including activists, social movements, non-governmental organizations, and public defenders and public prosecutors. The book details how these groups, as well as government officials and representatives from private companies, negotiated the upheaval through protests.
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Risky Cities - The Physical And Fiscal Nature Of Disaster Capitalism

by Albert S. Fu

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 Provides a critical examination of global urban development, capitalism, and its relationship with environmental hazards. Risky Cities is not simply about post-catastrophe profiteering. This book focuses on the way in which disaster capitalism has figured out ways to commodify environmental bads and manage risks.
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Building Something Better - Environmental Crises And The Promise Of Community Change

by Meghan Elizabeth Kallman e Stephanie A. Malin

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 Showing that it is possible to challenge social inequality and environmental degradation by refusing to continue business-as-usual,Â Building Something BetterÂ shares vivid case studies of small groups who are making a big impact by craftingÂ alternatives to neoliberal capitalism. It offers both a call to action and a dose of hope in these troubled times.
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Growing Gardens, Building Power - Food Justice And Urban Agriculture In Brooklyn

by Justin Sean Myers

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 Dives into the heart of the food justice movement through an exploration of East New York Farms!, one of the oldest food justice organisations in Brooklyn. The book details the food inequities the community faces, and how residents mobilized to turn vacant land into community gardens.
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Electric Mountains - Climate, Power, And Justice In An Energy Transition

by Shaun A. Golding

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 Examines how wind turbines have starkly split a community of environmentalists, as well as several communities. In doing so, the book casts a critical light on the roadmap for energy transition that Northern New Englandâ€™s ridgeline wind projects demarcate.
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Residues - Thinking Through Chemical Environments

by Angela N. H. Creager, Carsten Reinhardt, Emmanuel Henry, Jody A. Roberts, Nathalie Jas, Scott Frickel e Soraya Boudia

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 Residues offers readers a new approach for conceptualizing the environmental impacts of chemicals production, consumption, disposal, and regulation. With detailed stories that span the globe, we introduce â€œresidual materialismâ€ as a way to track the, often invisible, impacts of chemicals through time and space and for explaining their world-making powers.
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Back To The Roots - Memory, Inequality, And Urban Agriculture

by Sara Shostak

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 Drawing on the narratives of urban farmers and gardeners, Back to the Roots demonstrates that urban agriculture is a critical domain for explorations of, and challenges to, the long standing inequalities that shape both the materiality of cities and the bodies of their inhabitants.
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Toxic And Intoxicating Oil - Discovery, Resistance, And Justice In Aotearoa New Zealand

by Patricia Widener

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 By analysing the intersections of a social movement and the political economy of oil, Patricia Widener reveals a nuanced story of oil resistance and promotion at a time when many anti-drilling activists believed themselves to be on the front lines of the industry's inevitable decline.
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Has It Come To This? - The Promises And Perils Of Geoengineering On The Brink

~~68,83€~~ 55,06€ 20% OFF

 The editors set out the diverse collection of voices in this volume not as a monolithic, unified take on geoengineering, but as a place where creative thinkers, students, and interested environmental and social justice advocates can explore nuanced ideas in more than 240 characters.
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Fractured Communities - Risk, Impacts, And Protest Against Hydraulic Fracking In U.S. Shale Regions

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 <div>While environmental disputes and conflicts over fossil fuel extraction have grown in recent years, few issues have been as contentious in the twenty-first century as those surrounding the impacts of unconventional natural gas and oil development using hydraulic drilling and fracturing techniques—more commonly known as "fracking"—on local communities. In <i>Fractured Communities</i>, Anthony E. Ladd and other leading environmental sociologists present a set of crucial case studies analyzing the differential risk perceptions, socio-environmental impacts, and mobilization of citizen protest (or quiescence) surrounding unconventional energy development and hydraulic fracking in a number of key U.S. shale regions. <i> Fractured Communities</i> reveals how this contested terrain is expanding, pushing the issue of fracking into the mainstream of the American political arena. </div>
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Science By The People - Participation, Power, And The Politics Of Environmental Knowledge

by Abby Kinchy e Aya H. Kimura

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 Longlisted for the Fleck Prize from the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Citizen science-research involving nonprofessionals in the research process-has attracted both strong enthusiasts and detractors. Many environmental professionals, activists, and scholars consider citizen science part of their toolkit for addressing environmental challenges. Critics, however, contend that it represents a corporate takeover of scientific priorities. In this timely book, two sociologists move beyond this binary debate by analyzing the tensions and dilemmas that citizen science projects commonly face. Key lessons are drawn from case studies where citizen scientists have investigated the impact of shale oil and gas, nuclear power, and genetically engineered crops. These studies show that diverse citizen science projects face shared dilemmas relating to austerity pressures, presumed boundaries between science and activism, and difficulties moving between scales of environmental problems. By unpacking the politics of citizen science, this book aims to help people negotiate a complex political landscape and choose paths moving toward social change and environmental sustainability.
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Salmon And Acorns Feed Our People - Colonialism, Nature, And Social Action

by Kari Marie Norgaard

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 Finalist for the 2020 C. Wright Mills Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems Since time before memory, large numbers of salmon have made their way up and down the Klamath River. Indigenous management enabled the ecological abundance that formed the basis of capitalist wealth across North America. These activities on the landscape continue today, although they are often the site of intense political struggle. Not only has the magnitude of Native American genocide been of remarkable little sociological focus, the fact that this genocide has been coupled with a reorganization of the natural world represents a substantial theoretical void. Whereas much attention has (rightfully) focused on the structuring of capitalism, racism and patriarchy, few sociologists have attended to the ongoing process of North American colonialism. Salmon and Acorns Feed Our People draws upon nearly two decades of examples and insight from Karuk experiences on the Klamath River to illustrate how the ecological dynamics of settler-colonialism are essential for theorizing gender, race and social power today.
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Vanishing Bees - Science, Politics, And Honeybee Health

by Daniel Lee Kleinman e Sainath Suryanarayanan

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 In 2005, beekeepers in the United States began observing a mysterious and disturbing phenomenon: once-healthy colonies of bees were suddenly collapsing, leaving behind empty hives full of honey and pollen. Over the following decade, widespread honeybee deaths-some of which have come to be called Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD)-have continued to bedevil beekeepers and threaten the agricultural industries that rely on bees for pollination. Scientists continue to debate the causes of CCD, yet there is no clear consensus on how to best solve the problem. Vanishing Bees takes us inside the debates over widespread honeybee deaths, introducing the various groups with a stake in solving the mystery of CCD, including beekeepers, entomologists, growers, agrichemical companies, and government regulators. Drawing from extensive interviews and first-hand observations, Sainath Suryanarayanan and Daniel Lee Kleinman examine how members of each group have acquired, disseminated, and evaluated knowledge about CCD. In addition, they explore the often-contentious interactions among different groups, detailing how they assert authority, gain trust, and build alliances. As it explores the contours of the CCD crisis, Vanishing Bees considers an equally urgent question: what happens when farmers, scientists, beekeepers, corporations, and federal agencies approach the problem from different vantage points and cannot see eye-to-eye? The answer may have profound consequences for every person who wants to keep fresh food on the table.
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From Workshop To Waste Magnet - Environmental Inequality In The Philadelphia Region

by Diane Sicotte

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 Like many industrialized regions, the Philadelphia metro area contains pockets of environmental degradation. However, other neighbourhoods within and around the city are relatively pristine. This eye-opening book reveals that such environmental inequalities did not occur by chance, but were instead the result of specific policy decisions that served to exacerbate endemic classism and racism.
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Making The Scene In The Garden State - Popular Music In New Jersey From Edison To Springsteen And Beyond

by Dewar Macleod

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 Explores New Jersey's musical heritage through stories about the musicians, listeners and fans who came together to create sounds from across the popular music spectrum. From the beginnings of recording in Thomas Edison's factories to Bruce Springsteen and beyond, the book examines the sounds, sights and textures of music in New Jersey.
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For The Birds - Protecting Wildlife Through The Naturalist Gaze

by Elizabeth Cherry

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 One in five people in the United States is a birder, yet the popular understanding of birders reduces them to comical stereotypes. For the Birds offers readers a glimpse behind the binoculars and reveals birders to be important allies in the larger environmental conservation movement.
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Price Of Nuclear Power - Uranium Communities And Environmental Justice

by Stephanie A. Malin

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 <div> <div>Rising fossil fuel prices and concerns about greenhouse gas emissions are fostering a nuclear power renaissance and a revitalized uranium mining industry across the American West. In <i>The Price of Nuclear Power</i>, environmental sociologist Stephanie Malin offers an on-the-ground portrait of several uranium communities caught between the harmful legacy of previous mining booms and the potential promise of new economic development. Using this context, she examines how shifting notions of environmental justice inspire divergent views about nuclear power’s sustainability and equally divisive forms of social activism. </div> <div> </div> <div>Drawing on extensive fieldwork conducted in rural isolated towns such as Monticello, Utah, and Nucla and Naturita, Colorado, as well as in upscale communities like Telluride, Colorado, and incorporating interviews with community leaders, environmental activists, radiation regulators, and mining executives, Malin uncovers a fundamental paradox of the nuclear renaissance: the communities most hurt by uranium’s legacy—such as high rates of cancers, respiratory ailments, and reproductive disorders—were actually quick to support industry renewal. She shows that many impoverished communities support mining not only because of the employment opportunities, but also out of a personal identification with uranium, a sense of patriotism, and new notions of environmentalism. But other communities, such as Telluride, have become sites of resistance, skeptical of industry and government promises of safe mining, fearing that regulatory enforcement won’t be strong enough. Indeed, Malin shows that the nuclear renaissance has exacerbated social divisions across the Colorado Plateau, threatening social cohesion. Malin further illustrates ways in which renewed uranium production is not a socially sustainable form of energy development for rural communities, as it is utterly dependent on unstable global markets. <br> </div> <div><i>The Price of Nuclear Power</i> is an insightful portrait of the local impact of the nuclear renaissance and the social and environmental tensions inherent in the rebirth of uranium mining.<br> </div> <div> </div> </div>
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Dwelling In Resistance - Living With Alternative Technologies In America

by Chelsea Schelly

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 Most Americans take for granted much of what is materially involved in the daily rituals of dwelling. In Dwelling in Resistance, Chelsea Schelly examines four alternative U.S. communities-"The Farm," "Twin Oaks," "Dancing Rabbit," and "Earthships"-where electricity, water, heat, waste, food, and transportation practices differ markedly from those of the vast majority of Americans. Schelly portrays a wide range of residential living alternatives utilizing renewable, small-scale, de-centralized technologies. These technologies considerably change how individuals and communities interact with the material world, their natural environment, and one another. Using in depth interviews and compelling ethnographic observations, the book offers an insightful look at different communities' practices and principles and their successful endeavors in sustainability and self-sufficiency.
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Tragedy Of The Commodity - Oceans, Fisheries, And Aquaculture

by Brett Clark, Rebecca Clausen e Stefano B. Longo

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 Although humans have long depended on oceans and aquatic ecosystems for sustenance and trade, only recently has human influence on these resources dramatically increased, transforming and undermining oceanic environments throughout the world. Marine ecosystems are in a crisis that is global in scope. The Tragedy of the Commodity explores the role human influence plays in this crisis, highlighting the social and economic forces that are at the heart of this looming ecological problem.
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The Price Of Nuclear Power - Uranium Communities And Environmental Justice

by Stephanie A. Malin

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 Rising fossil fuel prices and concerns about greenhouse gas emissions are fostering a nuclear power renaissance and a revitalized uranium mining industry across the American West. Environmental sociologist Stephanie Malin offers an on-the-ground portrait of several uranium communities caught between the harmful legacy of previous mining booms and the potential promise of new economic development.
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Risk And Adaptation In A Cancer Cluster Town

by Laura Hart

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 Using a cancer cluster community in Northwest Ohio as a case study, Laura Hart advances an approach to risk that grapples with the complexities of community belonging, disconnect, and disruption in the wake of suspected industrial pollution.
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