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The environmental crusaders : confronting disaster and mobilizing community

Title
The environmental crusaders : confronting disaster and mobilizing community / Penina Migdal Glazer and Myron Peretz Glazer.
Author
Glazer, Penina Migdal.
Publication
University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©1998.

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Additional Authors
Glazer, Myron.
Description
xxvi, 218 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
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.
Subject
  • Environmentalists > United States
  • Environmentalists > Israel
  • Environmentalists > Czechoslovakia
  • Environmental sciences > Societies, etc
  • Environmentalism > Social aspects
  • Environment
  • Environmentalism > Social aspects
  • Environmentalists
  • Umweltschützer
  • Ökologische Bewegung
  • Soziale Rolle
  • Czechoslovakia
  • Israel
  • United States
  • Tschechoslowakei
  • USA
Genre/Form
  • Biography
  • Biographies
  • Biographies.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-212) and index.
Contents
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.
ISBN
  • 0271017759
  • 9780271017754
  • 0271017767
  • 9780271017761
LCCN
97049828
OCLC
  • ocm38016670
  • 38016670
  • SCSB-415389
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library