Environmentalism Unbound
Subtitle: Exploring New Pathways for Change (Urban and Industrial Environments)
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: February 5, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780262072106
Subjects: Environmentalist thought & ideology; Ecological Politics; Environmental Law; Law; Environmental Studies; Environmental Conservation & Protection - General; Environmental Science; Public Policy - Social Policy; Science / Environmental Science; Environmental; Environmental justice; Environmentalism; Pollution prevention; United States
First sentence: Environmentalism today can be characterized as a set of skilled organizational actors, fundraising apparatuses, effective though often outgunned lobbyists, and highly motivated, even passionate groups of individuals seeking to save some environmental amenity or overcome some environmentally destructive practice or action.
Description: "In Environmentalism Unbound, Robert Gottlieb proposes a new strategy for social and environmental change that involves reframing and linking the movements for environmental justice and pollution prevention. According to Gottlieb, the environmental movement's narrow conception of environment has isolated it from vital issues of everyday life, such as workplace safety, healthy communities, and food security, that are often viewed separately as industrial, community, or agricultural concerns.

This fragmented approach prevents an awareness of how these issues are also environmental issues."--BOOK JACKET.