| Capitalizing on Environmental Injustice: The Polluter-Industrial Complex in the Age of Globalization Contributor(s): Faber, Daniel (Author) |
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ISBN: 0742533913 ISBN-13: 9780742533912 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers OUR PRICE: $119.79 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2008 Annotation: Capitalizing on Environmental Injustice is a comprehensive assessment of the environmental justice movement, examining the achievements and challenges confronting the movement, along with an emphasis on new strategies of environmental problem-solving and innovations in environmental policy. The book is a multi-disciplinary approach that presents a blend of both broad overviews and powerful insider case studies and analyses of the environmental justice movement. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | Environmental Science (see Also Chemistry - Environmental) - Nature | Environmental Conservation & Protection - General |
| Dewey: 363.7 |
| LCCN: 2008004124 |
| Series: Nature's Meaning |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6.9" W x 9.1" (1.30 lbs) 272 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Ecology |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Capitalizing on Environmental Injustice provides a comprehensive overview of the achievements and challenges confronting the environmental justice movement. Pressured by increased international competition and the demand for higher profits, industrial and political leaders are working to weaken many of America's most essential environmental, occupational, and consumer protection laws. In addition, corporate-led globalization exports many ecological hazards abroad. The result is a deepening of the ecological crisis in both the United States and the Global South. However, not all people are impacted equally. In this process of capital restructuring, it is the most marginalized segments of society -poor people of color and the working class-that suffer the greatest force of corporate environmental abuses. Daniel Faber, a leading environmental sociologist, analyzes the global political and economic forces that create these environmental injustices. With a multi-disciplinary approach, Faber presents both broad overviews and powerful insider case studies, examining the connections between many different struggles for change. Capitalizing on Environmental Injustice explores compelling movements to challenge the polluter-industrial complex and bring about meaningful social transformation. |