Community Mobilization, Environmental Problems
Author: Erin Robinson
Publisher: Cambria Press
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ISBN-13: 1621967913
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Publisher: Cambria Press
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ISBN-13: 1621967913
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Published: 2014-05-14
Total Pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9781624997419
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9789280715682
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: DIANE Publishing Company
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 165
ISBN-13: 0788126482
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Marie Hoff
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 1998-03-04
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9781574441291
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The 1990s have been marked by a wide-spread awareness of the convergence of environmental, economic and social problems and issues. Many local workers have begun to recognize that severe setbacks or even collapse of their local economy is strongly related to environmental problems: either to the depletion of local resources (such as timber, fish, or minerals) or to severe pollution and degradation of the local ecosystem. This in-depth collection of case studies of urban and rural communities committed to a process of sustainable development provides a more detailed description of this dynamic process than was previously available. This provocative book demonstrates the commonalities in approach across a wide variety of environmental and cultural settings, examining an emerging consciousness from cultural, economic, social and environmental viewpoints.
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Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 156
ISBN-13: 1428904115
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Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 1139
ISBN-13: 1412957389
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Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9780271043111
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Drawing upon 140 interviews, Myron Peretz Glazer and Penina Migdal Glazer portray the personal transformation of those who moved from uninvolved residents to political activists working collectively to improve the quality of community life. In the process, they show how Environmentalism is adapting to the new global economy.