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Volatile places : a sociology of communities and environmental controversies /

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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Gunter, Valerie J. (Valerie Jan), 1961-
Autres auteurs: Kroll-Smith, J. Stephen, 1947-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Pine Forge Press, ©2007.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.