Volatile places : a sociology of communities and environmental controversies /

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A guide to spirited public controversies that inevitably occur when environments and human communities collide. It talks about the movie "An Inconvenient Truth" based on the environmental activism of Al Gore, and the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. It offers a case study approach to the...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Gunter, Valerie J. (Valerie Jan), 1961-
Other Authors: Kroll-Smith, J. Stephen, 1947-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Pine Forge Press, ©2007.
Subjects:
Environmentalism.
Human beings > Effect of environment on.
Environmental psychology.
Environnementalisme.
Homme > Influence de l'environnement.
Psychologie de l'environnement.
environmental psychology.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Environmental Policy.
SCIENCE > Environmental Science.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • When environments and communities collide
  • The presence of the past
  • Trust and betrayal
  • The problem of uncertain knowledge
  • Perceptions of fairness
  • Oppositional activity and social capital
  • Social facts and brute facts : confounding the social and the physical.

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