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Gould, Kenneth Alan was born on June 16, 1962 in Brooklyn. Son of Stanley E. and Carole M. Gould.
(In recent years, environmentalism in the United States ha...)
In recent years, environmentalism in the United States has increasingly emerged at the community level, focusing on local ecological problems. The authors critique the modern environmental mantra, "think globally, act locally," by analyzing the opportunities and constraints on local environmental action posed by economic and political structures at all levels. Three case studies--a wetlands protection project, water pollution of the Great Lakes, and consumer waste recycling--demonstrate the challenges facing citizen-worker movements.
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First published in 1994 and now reprinted with a new foreword updating the situation from the original edition Environment and Society: The Enduring Conflict explores environmental problems - coherently and theoretically - from both a political and economic point of view. By illustrating the root causes of environmental disruption - global warming, soil depletion, desertification, water and air pollution - the authors show how to recognize and understand the complex contemporary problems involved in caring for the environment. The book offers both a coherent perspective for solving ecological problems of all kinds and a systematic approach that shows how organizations, institutions and individuals can push for environmental protection reforms. In three sections Schnaiberg and Gould ask the questions: Why should we be concerned? How does environmental disorganization get created? What has been done? And, finally, what can be done? "Allan Schnaiberg has been to environmental sociology what Talcott Parsons was to mid-century sociological theory: a person whose work was an obligatory point of departure. A candid, penetrating and critical assessment of many of the sacred cows of environmentalism and antienvironmentalism. This book is a most welcome addition to the literature in environmental sociology." Contemporary Sociology
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Gould, Kenneth Alan was born on June 16, 1962 in Brooklyn. Son of Stanley E. and Carole M. Gould.
Bachelor of General Studies, University of Michigan, 1984; Master of Arts, Northwestern University, 1986; Doctor of Philosophy, Northwestern University, 1991.
Teaching assistant department sociology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 1985-1987; instructor, lecturer department sociology, Northwestern University, Evanston, 1987-1988, 88-91; assistant professor department sociology, St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York, 1991-1995; associate professor sociology, St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York, since 1995.
(First published in 1994 and now reprinted with a new fore...)
(In recent years, environmentalism in the United States ha...)
Member American Sociological Association (chair nominations committee section on environment and technical since 1992, member council since 1992), Eastern Sociological Society, Society Study Social Problems, Association for Canada Studies in the United States, Association for Humanist Sociology.
Married Patricia Rossman.