In recent years, environmentalism in the United States has increasingly emerged at the community level, focusing on local ecological problems. The authors critique the modern environmental mantra, "think globally, act locally," by analyzing the opportunities and constraints on local environmental action posed by economic and political structures at all levels. Three case studies--a wetlands protection project, water pollution of the Great Lakes, and consumer waste recycling--demonstrate the challenges facing citizen-worker movements.
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Three case studies--a wetlands protection project, water pollution of the Great Lakes, and consumer waste recycling--demonstrate the opportunities and constraints on local environmental action posed by economic and political structures at all levels.
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This review is from: Local Environmental Struggles: Citizen Activism in the Treadmill of Production (Paperback)
This work provides three studies which attempt to examine how effectively local citizen groups can challenge the existing production system and its political support. The examples include water pollution, wetlands protection, and postconsumer waste recycling. In each case, the authors directly confront the simplistic assumption that simply "thinking globally" can enhance the effectiveness of local movements. However, they suggest new models for mobilizing local citizens, using a form of "political franchising", involving the interaction between local movements, national and transnational movements, and the aggregation of organized local movements
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In this volume, we outline the driving logic and contradictions of modern industrial production as it constrains and shapes the ability of the environmental movement to protect ecosystems. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
treadmill actors, transnational treadmill, scarcity synthesis, treadmill firms, treadmill agents, environmental social movement organizations, treadmill expansion, treadmill institutions, local environmental mobilization, village speculators, ecosystem disorganization, modern treadmill, managed scarcity, environmental movement organizations, village planner, local political will, transnational producers, local environmental movements, scarcity approach, ecosystem elements, local mobilization, remanufacturing process, natural resource conflicts, economic synthesis, recycling policies Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Wetland Watchers, Great Lakes, United States, Port Hope, Lake Michigan, Task Force, Army Corps of Engineers, Grand Calumet River, Third World, Environmental Protection Agency, Ontario Ministry of the Environment, Resource Center, East Chicago, Hamilton Harbour, Keep America Beautiful, Outboard Marine, International Joint Commission, Lake Superior, Lawrence River, Love Canal, Manistique River, New York, World War, Environmental Defense Fund, Indiana Department of Environmental Management New!
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In this volume, we outline the driving logic and contradictions of modern industrial production as it constrains and shapes the ability of the environmental movement to protect ecosystems. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
treadmill actors, transnational treadmill, scarcity synthesis, treadmill firms, treadmill agents, environmental social movement organizations, treadmill expansion, treadmill institutions, local environmental mobilization, village speculators, ecosystem disorganization, modern treadmill, managed scarcity, environmental movement organizations, village planner, local political will, transnational producers, local environmental movements, scarcity approach, ecosystem elements, local mobilization, remanufacturing process, natural resource conflicts, economic synthesis, recycling policies Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Wetland Watchers, Great Lakes, United States, Port Hope, Lake Michigan, Task Force, Army Corps of Engineers, Grand Calumet River, Third World, Environmental Protection Agency, Ontario Ministry of the Environment, Resource Center, East Chicago, Hamilton Harbour, Keep America Beautiful, Outboard Marine, International Joint Commission, Lake Superior, Lawrence River, Love Canal, Manistique River, New York, World War, Environmental Defense Fund, Indiana Department of Environmental Management New!
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- Love Canal: The Story Continues... by Lois Marie Gibbs on 4 pages
- Love Canal: Science, Politics, and People by Adeline Gordon Levine on 4 pages
- Distributional Conflicts in Environmental-Resource Policy by Allan Schnaiberg in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Global Reach: The Power of the Multinational Corporations by Richard J. Barnet on page 31, and Back Matter
- Global Dreams: Imperial Corporations and the New World Order by Richard J. Barnet on page 31, and Back Matter
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- The Environmental State Under Pressure (Research in Social Problems and Public Policy) by F.H. Buttel on page 31, page 63, and page 243
- Pathways to Prohibition: Radicals, Moderates, and Social Movement Outcomes by Ann-Marie E. Szymanski in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Privileged Goods: Commoditization and Its Impact on Environment and Society (Ecological Economics) by Robert Costanza on page 119, and Back Matter
- Moral and Political Reasoning in Environmental Practice by Avner De - Shalit on page 100, and Back Matter
- Ecology and the World-System (Contributions in Economics and Economic History,) by Walter L. Goldfrank on page 232, and page 254
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