Volatile Places : a Sociology of Communities and Environmental Controversies.

Volatile Places : a Sociology of Communities and Environmental Controversies.

Volatile Places: A Sociology of Communities and Environmental Controversies is a thoughtful guide to the spirited public controversies that inevitably occur when environments and human communities collide. The movie "An Inconvenient Truth" based on the environmental activism of Al Gore and...

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Main Author: Gunter, Valerie J.
Other Authors: Kroll-Smith, Steve
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, 2006.
Subjects:
Environmentalism.
Human beings > Effect of environment on.
Environmental psychology.
environmental psychology.
Environmental psychology
Environmentalism
Human beings > Effect of environment on
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Summary:Volatile Places: A Sociology of Communities and Environmental Controversies is a thoughtful guide to the spirited public controversies that inevitably occur when environments and human communities collide. The movie "An Inconvenient Truth" based on the environmental activism of Al Gore and the devastation of Hurricane Katrina are specifically highlighted. Authors Valerie Gunter and Steve Kroll-Smith begin with a simple observation and offer a provocative case study approach to the investigation of community and environmental controversies.
Physical Description:1 online resource (257 pages)
ISBN:9781452222868
145222286X
9781452239569
1452239568
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.

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