The Rise of the U.S. Environmental Health Movement (Hardcover)

This book, named one of Booklist's Top 10 books on sustainability in 2014, is the first to offer a comprehensive examination of the environmental health movement, which unlike many parts of the environmental movement, focuses on ways toxic chemicals and other hazardous agents in the environment effect human health and well-being. Born in 1978 when Lois Gibbs organized her neighbors to protest the health effects of a toxic waste dump in Love Canal, New York, the movement has spread across the United States and throughout the world. By placing human health at the center of its environmental argument, this movement has achieved many victories in community mobilization and legislative reform. In The Rise of the U.S. Environmental Health Movement, environmental health expert Kate Davies describes the movement's historical, ideological, and cultural roots and analyzes its strategies and successes.

General

Imprint:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 2013
First published:	March 2013
Authors:	Kate Davies
Foreword by:	Elise Miller
Dimensions:	236 x 162 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	280
ISBN-13:	978-1-4422-2137-6
Categories:	Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Environmental economics > Sustainability Books > Health, Home & Family > Family & health > Popular medicine > General Books > Medicine > General issues > Public health & preventive medicine > Personal & public health > Environmental factors
LSN:	1-4422-2137-2
Barcode:	9781442221376

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