Where We Live, Work and Play
Subtitle: The Environmental Justice Movement and the Struggle for a New Environmentalism (Praeger Series in Transformational Politics and Political Science)
Publisher: Praeger Publishers; Praeger
Published: August 30, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9780275960261
Subjects: Human ecology; Pollution & threats to the environment; Poverty; Environmental Policy; Environmental Sociology; Social Science; Environmental Studies; Nature/Ecology; USA; Environmental Science; Ethnic Studies - General; Government - National; Science / Environmental Science; Minority Studies - General; Public Policy - Social Policy; Environmental justice; Environmentalism; United States
First sentence: The public awareness of the environmental hazards of pesticides, automobile emissions, and the contamination of the nation's rivers and lakes-the most famous of which was the eutrophication of Lake Erie in 1972-was part of the changing public sentiments in the decades following World War II.