Volatile Places : a Sociology of Communities and Environmental Controversies.

Volatile Places: A Sociology of Communities and Environmental Controversies is a thoughtful guide to the spirited public controversies that inevitably occur when environments and human communities collide. The movie "An Inconvenient Truth" based on the environmental activism of Al Gore and...

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Main Author: Gunter, Valerie J.
Other Authors: Kroll-Smith, Steve
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, 2006
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