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The Rise of the U.S. Environmental Health Movement

The Rise of the U.S. Environmental Health Movement
Author: Kate Davies;Elise Miller Elise Miller, Director, Collaborative on Health and the Environment
Price: $36.00
ISBN-10: 1442221380
ISBN-13: 9781442221383
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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.