Corburn on Community Knowledge…

Jason Corburn posted an article on The Encyclopedia of Earth explaining the role of “community knowledge in environmental health science,” a theme he focuses on his book Street Science.

Click here to access his article on The Encyclopedia of Earth.

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admin July 30th 2009 | Posted in Environmental Justice, Health, Op-Eds and Commentary, Websites

“Filling in ‘Food Deserts’” Editorial by Amanda Shaffer and Robert Gottlieb

Amanda Shaffer and Robert Gottlieb co-authored an editorial on L.A.’s “food deserts,” which appeared in The Los Angeles Times on November 5th, 2008. Read the full article here.

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Amanda Shaffer June 18th 2008 | Tags: , ,
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Review: Barry Commoner and the Science of Survival

Review by Peter R. Jutro in November 2007 issue of the Environmental Health Perspectives . Read the full review here.
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The book capably illuminates the sweep of Commoner’s involvement in social issues of the last half-century, and makes a major contribution to the literature on the origins of current environmental debates.
We get from Egan an analytical, reasoned picture of Commoner—clearly a seminal figure in the history of American environmentalism—and of his role in that environmentalism. Commoner’s background, biases, aspirations, and intentions are well described and intriguingly tied to analyses of his activities.
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admin June 17th 2008 | Tags: ,
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Review: Reinventing Los Angeles, Orion Magazine

Review by William L. Fox in May/June 2008 issue of Orion magazine.  Read the full review here.
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IN 1997, environmental historian Robert Gottlieb took up a position at Occidental College in Los Angeles that encouraged him to teach and research, but, somewhat uniquely, also to continue his activist role in the community. Four years earlier Gottlieb had published his groundbreaking Forcing the Spring, which brought the issues of race, ethnicity, gender, and class into the environmental dialogue. Gottlieb was determined that urban communities be seen as a critical context for environmental action, and his 2005 revision of that book validated his conviction. Occidental would prove to be fertile ground for the professor.
Gottlieb never defines it as such, but his richly informative book is really about flow—of resources, people, history—and about how we all need to put our hands into that urban stream as participants directing community, a word he sensibly makes very nearly synonymous with environment.
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admin June 10th 2008 | Tags: , , ,
Posted in Book Reviews, Built Environment/Landuse, Environmental Justice


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