Description
This book represents a ground-breaking attempt to understand an important emerging dimension of the American economy. It will have a considerable impact on the way social scientists understand sustainable development initiatives...The recent travails of New York City in trying to find a new home for its garbage suggest that the phenomena examined in this book have an enduring practical significance for most Americans in metropolitan areas. -- Thomas Rudel, author of "Situations and Strategies in American Land Use Planning"
About the Author
Adam S. Weinberg is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Colgate University and coauthor of Local Environmental Struggles. He has advised many communities, nonprofit organizations, and government agencies on sustainable development. David N. Pellow is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He has published widely on environmental racism and justice, participated in several federal initiatives, and served on the board of many nonprofit organizations. Allan Schnaiberg is Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University and a faculty associate of its Institute for Policy Research. His numerous publications include The Environment: From Surplus to Scarcity and Environment and Society: The Enduring Conflict.
Reviews
"[This] important book ostensibly concerns urban recycling, but it actually treats the paradox of sustainable community development in the age of global capitalism ... [It] has important implications for social, community, and environmental advocates, and for students of contemporary urban life."--Choice "Urban Recycling makes a refreshing change from the usual waste-management books with their worthy but often dull descriptions of the waste hierarchy and bottle banks... This text, an analysis of United States community recycling programmes, has a different approach, with emphasis on community rather than recycling."--Jane Powell, Times Higher Education Supplement "A sophisticated examination of recycling... Urban Recycling presents readers with a holisitic study that will illuminate the history of recycling while examining the problems of achieving sustainability within a profit-driven economic system."--Brett Clark, Organization and Development "The next time you finish that can of pop, you might want to just chuck the empty in the street. This is not the conclusion, but it is the implication, of Urban Recycling... [T]his book is a great read for anyone inside or outside academia wondering what to do with that empty pop can."--Randy Stoecker, Contemporary Science
Book Information
ISBN 9780691050140
Author Adam S. Weinberg
Format Hardback
Page Count 232
Imprint Princeton University Press
Publisher Princeton University Press
Weight(grams) 482g