Throughout the twentieth century, despite compelling evidence that some pesticides posed a threat to human and environmental health, growers and the USDA continued to favor agricultural chemicals over cultural and biological forms of pest control. In Ghostworkers and Greens, Adam Tompkins reveals a history of unexpected cooperation between farmworker groups and environmental organizations. Tompkins shows that the separate movements shared a common concern about the effects of pesticides on human health. This enabled bridge-builders within the disparate organizations to foster cooperative relationships around issues of mutual concern to share information, resources, and support.
Nongovernmental organizations, particularly environmental organizations and farmworker groups, played a key role in pesticide reform. For nearly fifty years, these groups served as educators, communicating to the public scientific and experiential information about the adverse effects of pesticides on human health and the environment, and built support for the amendment of pesticide policies and the alteration of pesticide use practices. Their efforts led to the passage of more stringent regulations to better protect farmworkers, the public, and the environment. Environmental organizations and farmworker groups also acted as watchdogs, monitoring the activity of regulatory agencies and bringing suit when necessary to ensure that they fulfilled their responsibilities to the public. These groups served as not only lobbyists but also essential components of successful democratic governance, ensuring public participation and more effective policy implementation.
Автор: Hironaka Название: Greening the Globe ISBN: 1316608425 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781316608425 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 33790.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Globalization has moved us toward becoming a world society with a common culture. Greening the Globe argues that international efforts to address environmental problems are often successful in the long run by setting the political agenda, by empowering environmental groups and citizens, and by changing our perceptions of environmental problems.
Автор: Tony Brenton Название: The Greening of Machiavelli: The Evolution of International Environmental Politics ISBN: 0367221241 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367221249 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 117390.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: First published in 1994. This book traces the history of international environmental negotiations and regulations and looks at the domestic policies upon which cooperation in the international community depends. This study will be essential reading to students of environmental studies and politics.
Автор: Hironaka Название: Greening the Globe ISBN: 1107031540 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107031548 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 95040.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Globalization has moved us toward becoming a world society with a common culture. Greening the Globe argues that international efforts to address environmental problems are often successful in the long run by setting the political agenda, by empowering environmental groups and citizens, and by changing our perceptions of environmental problems.
Автор: United Nations Economic Commission for Africa Название: Economic Report on Africa 2016: Greening Africa`s Industrialization ISBN: 9211251265 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789211251265 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 60060.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Focuses on greening industrialization and highlights sustainable and people-centred industrialization. The report employs a value chain approach in analysing the decoupling needs of key economic sectors towards low carbon intensive economic growth in Africa. Country case studies are used in demonstrating ongoing greening activities across key sectors.
Автор: Jennifer Thomson Название: The Wild and the Toxic: American Environmentalism and the Politics of Health ISBN: 1469651998 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469651996 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 27170.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Health figures centrally in late twentieth-century environmental activism. There are many competing claims about the health of ecosystems, the health of the planet, and the health of humans, yet there is little agreement among the likes of D.C. lobbyists, grassroots organizers, eco-anarchist collectives, and science-based advocacy organizations about whose health matters most, or what health even means. In this book, Jennifer Thomson untangles the complex web of political, social, and intellectual developments that gave rise to the multiplicity of claims and concerns about environmental health.
Thomson traces four strands of activism from the 1970s to the present, including the environmental lobby, environmental justice groups, radical environmentalism and bioregionalism, and climate justice activism. By focusing on health, environmentalists were empowered to intervene in the rise of neoliberalism, the erosion of the regulatory state, and the decimation of mass-based progressive politics, but, as this book reveals, an individualist definition of health ultimately won out over more communal understandings. Considering this turn from collective solidarity toward individual health helps explain the near paralysis of collective action in the face of planetary disaster.
Автор: Busenberg George J. Название: Oil and Wilderness in Alaska: Natural Resources, Environmental Protection, and National Policy Dynamics ISBN: 1589016629 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781589016620 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 91890.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Colliding environmental and development interests have shaped national policy reforms supporting both oil development and environmental protection in Alaska. This book illuminates the processes and consequences of these reforms at the state, national, and international levels.
Автор: Orrin H. Pilkey, Keith C. Pilkey Название: Sea Level Rise: A Slow Tsunami on America`s Shores ISBN: 1478005068 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781478005063 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 120390.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: The consequences of twenty-first-century sea level rise on the United States and its nearly 90,000 miles of shoreline will be immense: Miami and New Orleans will disappear; many nuclear and other power plants, hundreds of wastewater plants and toxic waste sites, and oil production facilities will be at risk; port infrastructures will need to be raised; and over ten million Americans fleeing rising seas will become climate refugees. In Sea Level Rise Orrin H. Pilkey and Keith C. Pilkey argue that the only feasible response along much of the U.S. shoreline is an immediate and managed retreat. Among many topics, they examine sea level rise's effects on coastal ecosystems, health, and native Alaskan coastal communities. They also provide guidelines for those living on the coasts or planning on moving to or away from them, as well as the steps local governments should take to prepare for this unstoppable, impending catastrophe.
Автор: Cara New Daggett Название: The Birth of Energy: Fossil Fuels, Thermodynamics, and the Politics of Work ISBN: 1478006323 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781478006329 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 23370.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: In The Birth of Energy Cara New Daggett traces the genealogy of contemporary notions of energy back to the nineteenth-century science of thermodynamics to challenge the underlying logic that informs today's uses of energy. These early resource-based concepts of power first emerged during the Industrial Revolution and were tightly bound to Western capitalist domination and the politics of industrialized work. As Daggett shows, thermodynamics was deployed as an imperial science to govern fossil fuel use, labor, and colonial expansion, in part through a hierarchical ordering of humans and nonhumans. By systematically excavating the historical connection between energy and work, Daggett argues that only by transforming the politics of work—most notably, the veneration of waged work—will we be able to confront the Anthropocene's energy problem. Substituting one source of energy for another will not ensure a habitable planet; rather, the concepts of energy and work themselves must be decoupled.
Автор: Rod MacRae, Elisabeth Abergel Название: Health and Sustainability in the Canadian Food System: Advocacy and Opportunity for Civil Society ISBN: 0774822686 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780774822688 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 93810.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Civil society organizations are among the most vociferous critics of the modern food system. Yet even after decades of campaigns, governments have largely failed to address health and sustainability issues in an effective way. This volume showcases the research of experts from multiple disciplines who argue that solutions lie not just in lobbying elected officials but in initiatives at the subparliamentary level. Real change will come, they argue, when advocacy groups develop innovative strategies capable of influencing decision makers more resistant to public pressure: business lobbies well connected to government agencies, middle managers, and ministries unused to collaborating across departmental mandates.
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