The environmental crusaders
Subtitle: confronting disaster and mobilizing community
By: Penina Migdal Glazer and Myron Peretz Glazer.
Contributors: Glazer, Myron.
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: University Park, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
Subjects: Environmentalists -- United States; Environmentalists -- Israel; Environmentalists -- Czechoslovakia; Environmental sciences -- Societies, etc; Environmentalism -- Social aspects
Description: The Environmental Crusaders highlights citizens in Israel, the former Czechoslovakia, and the United States who challenged serious ecological problems and demanded a safe environment and an accountable society. The men and women portrayed here confronted the threat of nuclear contamination, chemical waste and pollution, exposure to garbage and industrial refuse, untreated sewage, and other serious dangers.

Drawing upon 140 interviews, Myron Peretz Glazer and Penina Migdal Glazer portray the personal transformation of those who moved from uninvolved residents to political activists working collectively to improve the quality of community life. In the process, they show how Environmentalism is adapting to the new global economy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-212) and index.