The environmental crusaders : confronting disaster and mobilizing community / Penina Migdal Glazer and Myron Peretz Glazer
- Bib ID:
- 2026102
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Glazer, Penina Migdal
- Description:
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- University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c1998
- xxvi, 218 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0271017759 (alkaline paper)
- 0271017767 (alkaline paper) (paperback)
- Summary:
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The Environmental Crusaders highlights citizens in Israel, the former Czechoslovakia, and the United States who challenged serious ecological problems and demanded a safe environment and an accountable society. The men and women portrayed here confronted the threat of nuclear contamination, chemical waste and pollution, exposure to garbage and industrial refuse, untreated sewage, and other serious dangers. 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.
- Full contents:
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- 1. Maintaining a Democratic Society
- 2. Breaking the Bands of National Security Secrecy
- 3. Marching Along with Mothers and Children
- 4. Preserving the Farmland from Contamination
- 5. Protecting the Precious Natural Resources
- 6. The Courage of Ordinary People
- Methodological Appendix: Tracking the Environmental Crusaders.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-212) and index.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Glazer, Myron
- Copyright:
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- Published status:
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- Publication date:
- 1998
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