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Author : Erin Robinson
Publisher : Cambria Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781621967910
Author : Erin E. Robinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : POLITICAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 1624997414
Despite the wealth of information describing social movement activity, studies that focus attention on the intricacies of community relationships within the mobilization process are few. Attention is given in this context to the community struggle to determine parameters of health and safety in the face of environmental contamination. This focused effort draws on detailed analysis of community relationships with the media, science, government and community members themselves. Over the course of five years, the author, sociologist Erin Robinson, has uncovered the ways in which community members come to understand the environmental problems they face. This book offers an explanation for how communities faced with environmental contamination can begin to make sense of that reality. The story of this community serves as a case study for how complex efforts to understand a problem facing one's community can be. In this study, the complications of social movement mobilization are analyzed from a perspective that considers the nuances of the mobilization process. In doing so, this study offers a perspective to community mobilization that reflects on processes of negotiation, conflict, acceptance, and rejection of information frames that serve to explain a community environmental problem. This book both demonstrates the ways in which individuals engage in the mobilization process and serves to explain how mobilization occurs. Through a detailed qualitative analysis of in depth interviews, document analysis, and field research, Robinson traces the beginning of a community social movement throughout the life of the movement effort. Whereas many studies of mobilization are historical, this study offers a close analysis of mobilization efforts as they were occurring. The story of how changes in mobilization occur is demonstrated by how individuals gain information from different sources and frame the issues leading to mobilization activities. Overall the book not only contributes to an understanding of why community mobilization occurs, but helps explain that as well. This is an important read for students, researchers, and community groups alike. This book provides sociological context to environmental problems that would be useful in courses and library collections in sociology, social movements, community and environmental studies.
Author : United Nations Environment Programme
Publisher : UNEP/Earthprint
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9280715682
A publication which offers clear explanations on how to address many of the environmental problems plaguing the planet. Although intended for individuals & community service organizations, it will be of great interest to all those concerned with the well-being of the earth & its inhabitants.
Author : Johannes C. Van Es,Andrew J. Sofranko
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Community leadership
ISBN : UIUC:30112121969775
Author : Lisa Hopkinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Civil society
ISBN : UOM:39015051917055
Author : DIANE Publishing Company
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Environmental protection
ISBN : 9780788126482
Offers small community decision-makers a process for developing a community environmental plan. Covers: getting the right people involved; developing a community vision; defining your community's needs; finding feasible solutions for your community; putting the plan together; and implementation: putting the plan into action and keeping it on track. Appendixes: what environmental regulations affect your community?; assessing risks from environmental problems in your community; and where to turn for help. Illustrated.
Author : Ronnie D. Lipschutz,Doreen Stabinsky
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781538105115
This book argues that environmental problems are, first and foremost, political and, therefore, about power. Using a framework of political economy and political ecology, the authors deconstruct current environmental problems to identify root causes and address those problems through mobilization of collective action and social power. The second edition also offers: •Updated examples and stories of political struggles and the actors involved •Explicit attention to various forms of power in environmental politics, including structural and social power •Local politics and collective action as related to global environmental politics •Discussion of emerging issues such as synthetic biology; commodification and financialization of nature, including carbon markets; and geoengineering
Author : Cecilia Chan,Peter R. Hills
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UCSD:31822019073410
During the 1980s the public became more aware of the health and amenity impacts of pollution and by the early 1990s the environment was firmly established as a major issue of public concern. This book deals with the emergence of community-based environmental protection initiatives in Hong Kong, particularly in low income areas, and describes their successes and their failures.
Author : Archana Ghosh
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Environmental management
ISBN : 8180690407
Provides Insight About The Environmental Problems Plaguing The Urban Areas In A Cross-Country Perspectives. Emphasizes The Partnership Between The Local Government And The Community In Urban Environmental Management Sustainable Development. Provides Case Studies Also.
Author : Jorge E. Hardoy,Diana Mitlin,David Satterthwaite
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134200856
New edition of Environmental Problems in Third World Cities Cities in Africa, Asia and Latin America contain some of the world's most life- and health-threatening human environments. Environment-related diseases and injuries cause millions of preventable deaths each year. In many squatter settlements, children are 40 to 50 times more likely to die before the age of five than they would be in Europe or North America and most such deaths are environment-related. Many cities also cause serious environmental degradation to their surroundings and increasingly contribute to global warming. This updated and much expanded edition of the classic Environmental Problems in Third World Cities describes environmental problems and their effect on human health, local ecosystems and global cycles. It points to the political causes that underpin many of these problems - including ineffective, unaccountable governments, and aid agencies' reluctance to work with the urban poor. It also highlights innovative solutions such as: * High-quality, low-cost homes and neighbourhoods developed by urban poor groups working with local non-governmental organizations * Local Agenda 21s developed by municipal governments in partnership with community organizations.* In their analysis, the authors show that cities can meet sustainable development goals. There are practical, affordable solutions to their environmental problems, but most of these depend on more competent and accountable city governments and on more support for low-income households and their organizations. The book also outlines the changes needed international aid agencies to support this. PRAISE FOR THE FIRST EDITION 'It's rare to encounter a work as authoritative and accessible as this. It is a mine of useful information from cities in every corner of the Third World, which does not shy away from the immensity of the problems, but says as much about the solutions to them as about the problems themselves' Jonathon Porritt 'Well written and very accessible' The Geographical Journal 'Of value to students, teachers, practitioners, policy makers and aid agencies' Third World Planning Review 'A valuable resource for understanding the underlying problems[this book offers] practical alternatives' Cities International.
Author : Kenneth A. Gould,Kenneth Gould,Allan Schnaiberg,Adam S. Weinberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1996-07-13
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0521555213
In recent years, environmentalism in the US has increasingly emerged at the community level, focusing on local ecological problems. Correspondingly, the American environmental movement has exhorted its supporters to 'think globally' but 'act locally'. The authors examine this modern environmental mantra by analysing the opportunities and constraints on local environmental action posed by economic and political structures at all levels. The difficulties involved in local activism are explored in three case studies - a wetlands protection project, water pollution of the Great Lakes, and consumer waste recycling. The final chapter then reflects on the challenges facing citizen-worker movements in each case study, and concludes that, despite the inherent difficulties, any successful attempt at mobilisation must have a local component.
Author : Dara O'Rourke
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0262650649
Case studies of community action in Vietnam form the basis for a new policy model for pollution control in developing countries.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Environmental protection
ISBN : 9781428904118
Author : David Satterthwaite,et al
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-23
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781134172856
Each year, millions of children die of environmental causes and many more suffer serious illness or injury. Children are often the most vulnerable to the condition of their environment -and their health is an index of its quality - but their wellbeing is rarely given priority by governments or aid agencies. Ironically, the problems can be traced back to matters which can be treated straightforwardly and at relatively low cost - poor drinking water or food, or infectious diseases which can be controlled. This book gives a multidisciplinary account of the environmental health hazards threatening children and the range of impacts they can have. It also explains what can be done, by communities as well as governments and aid workers, to provide safe and healthy environments for children. The book looks at conditions in a range of cities in the developing world, as well as pollutants and other health problems affecting children in the North. Published in association with UNICEF, and written by some of the same authors as Environmental Problems in Third World Cities (Earthscan, 1993), this provides excellent course material, and will be useful for practitioners working on child development, infant and maternal health, environmental health and community development. David Satterthwaite is Director of the Human Settlements Programme at the International Institute for Environment and Development, and principal author of Environmental Problems in Third World Cities (1993) and Squatter Citizen(1989).
Author : Jeffrey Broadbent
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1999-07-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521665744
Discusses the growth/environment dilemma in contemporary Japan. -- Preface.