Volatile Places

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Volatile Places

Author	: Valerie Gunter
File Size	: 45,5 Mb
Publisher	: SAGE
Language	: English
Release Date	: 22 November 2006
ISBN	: 9781452239569
Pages	: 256 pages

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Volatile Places by Valerie Gunter Book PDF Summary

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 the devastation of Hurricane Katrina are specifically highlighted. Authors Valerie Gunter and Steve Kroll-Smith begin with a simple observation and offer a provocative case study approach to the investigation of community and environmental controversies.

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