Environmentalism Unbound

Exploring New Pathways for Change
Erscheinungsjahr 2001
ISBN: 978-0-262-07210-6
Verlag: MIT Press

Buch, Englisch, 408 Seiten, Format (B × H): 158 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 798 g

Reihe: Urban and Industrial Environments

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.After tracing a history of environmental perspectives on land and resources,
city and countryside, and work and industry, Gottlieb focuses on three compelling examples of this
new approach to social and environmental change. The first involves a small industry (dry cleaning)
and the debate over pollution prevention approaches; the second involves a set of products
(janitorial cleaning supplies) that may be hazardous to workers; and the third explores the
obstacles and opportunities presented by community or regional approaches to food supply in the face
of an increasingly globalized food system.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gottlieb, Robert

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Umweltsoziologie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltsoziologie, Umweltpsychologie, Umweltethik
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Umwelt-, Konsum- und Werbepsychologie

Über Autor(innen)

Gottlieb, Robert
Robert Gottlieb is Henry R. Luce Professor of Urban Environmental Studies at Occidental
College in Los Angeles. He is the author of Environmentalism Unbound: Exploring New
Pathways for Change (2001), and Reinventing Los Angeles: Nature and Community in
the Global City (2007), both published by the MIT Press, and other books.

James Critchlow is an associate of the Davis Center for Russian and EurasianStudies, Harvard University.