Books
Last modified: August 6, 2009Action Research Books are made up of titles from two MIT press series edited by UEPI Director, Robert Gottlieb: Food, Health, and Environment and Urban and Industrial Environments. The books from both series are listed below.
The series continue to actively solicit new manuscripts. For more information, please contact Robert Gottlieb.
Food, Health, and Environment Books
Food and the Mid-Level Farm: Renewing an Agriculture of the Middle
Edited by Thomas A. Lyson, G. W. Stevenson, and Rick Welsh
June 2008, MIT Press
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Confronting the Coffee Crisis: Fair Trade, Sustainable Livelihoods and Ecosystems in Mexico and Central AmericaEdited by Christopher M. Bacon, V. Ernesto Méndez, Stephen R. Gliessman, David Goodman and Jonathan A. Fox
February 2008, MIT Press
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Agroecology in Actionby Keith Douglass Warner
January 2007, MIT Press
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Corporate Power in Global Agrifood GovernanceEdited by Jennifer Clapp and Doris Fuchs
June 2009, MIT Press
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Urban and Industrial Environments Books
New York for Sale: Community Planning Confronts Global Real Estate
by Tom Angotti, Forward by Peter Marcuse
November 2008, MIT Press
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Environmental Justice in Latin America: Problems, Promise, and Practiceby David V. Carruthers
March 2008, MIT Press
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Reinventing Los Angeles: Nature and Community in the Global Cityby Robert Gottlieb
November 2007, MIT Press
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The Enclave Economy: Foreign Investment and Sustainable Development in Mexico’s Silicon Valleyby Kevin P. Gallagher and Lyuba ZarskySeptember 2007, MIT Press
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Resisting Global Toxics: Transnational Movements for Environmental JusticeBy David Naguib Pellow
September 2007, MIT Press
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Rivertown: Rethinking Urban RiversPaul Stanton Kibel (Ed.)
September 2007, MIT Press
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The Working Landscape: Founding, Preservation, and the Politics of Placeby Peter F. Cannavò
July 2007, MIT Press
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Alternative Pathways in Science and Industry: Activism, Innovation, and the Environment in an Era of Globalizationby David Hess
May 2007, MIT Press
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Degrees That Matter: Climate Change and the Universityby Ann Rappaport and Sarah Hammond Creighton
May 2007, MIT Press
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Barry Commoner and the Science of Survival: The Remaking of American Environmentalismby Michael Egan
April 2007, MIT Press
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Environmental Justice and Environmentalism: The Social Justice Challenge to the Environmental MovementRonald Sandler and Phaedra C. Pezzullo (Eds.)
February 2007, MIT Press
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Growing Smarter: Achieving Livable Communities, Environmental Justice, and Regional Equityby Robert D. Bullard (Ed.)
February 2007, MIT Press
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Noxious New York: The Racial Politics of Urban Health and Environmental Justiceby Julie Sze
December 2006, MIT Press
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Precautionary Politics: Principle and Practice in Confronting Environmental Riskby Kerry H. Whiteside
November 2006, MIT Press
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China Shifts Gears: Automakers, Oil, Pollution, and Developmentby Kelly Sims Gallagher
May 2006, MIT Press
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Diamond: A Struggle for Environmental Justice in Louisiana’s Chemical Corridorby Steve Lerner, Forward by Robert D. Bullard
April 2006, MIT Press
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The Code of the City: Standards and the Hidden Language of Place Makingby Eran Ben-Joseph
November 2005, MIT Press
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Power, Justice, and the Environment: A Critical Appraisal of the Environmental Justice MovementDavid Naguib Pellow and Robert J. Brulle (Eds.)
November 2005, MIT Press
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Precautionary Tools for Reshaping Environmental PolicyEdited by Nancy J. Myers and Carolyn Raffensperger
November 2005, MIT Press
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Urban Place: Reconnecting with the Natural WorldEdited by Peggy F. Barlett, Forward by Roderick Frazier Nash
October 2005, MIT Press
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Environmentalism Unbound: Exploring New Pathways for Changeby Robert Gottlieb
August 2005, MIT Press
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Street Science: Community Knowledge and Environmental Health Justiceby Jason Corburn
August 2005, MIT Press
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Garbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicagoby David Naguib Pellow
October 2004, MIT Press
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Labor and the Environmental Movement: The Quest for Common Groundby Brian K. Obach
March 2004, MIT Press
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Sustainability on Campus: Stories and Strategies for ChangeEdited by Peggy Barlett and Geoffrey Chase
March 2004, MIT Press
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Community-Driven Regulation: Balancing Development and the Environment in Vietnamby Dara O’Rourke
December 2003, MIT Press
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Uneasy Alchemy: Citizens and Experts in Louisiana’s Chemical Corridor Disputesby Barbara L. Allen
October 2003, MIT Press
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Just Sustainabilities: Development in an Unequal WorldJulian Agyeman, Robert D. Bullard, and Bob Evans (Eds.)
March 2003, MIT Press
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Concrete and Clay: Reworking Nature in New York Cityby Matthew Gandy
April 2002, MIT Press
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Silent Spill: The Organization of an Industrial Crisisby Thomas D. Beamish
February 2002, MIT Press
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The Land That Could Be: Environmentalism and Democracy in the Twenty-First Centuryby William A. Shutkin
October 2001, MIT Press
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Materials Matter: Toward a Sustainable Materials Policyby Kenneth Geiser and Barry Commoner
June 2001, MIT Press
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Human Settlements and Planning for Ecological Sustainability: The Case of Mexico Cityby Keith Pezzoli, Forward by John Friedman
July 2000, MIT Press
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Reclaiming the Environmental Debate: The Politics of Health in a Toxic CultureRichard Hofrichter (Ed.)
May 2000, MIT Press
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Making Microchips: Policy, Globalization, and Economic Restructuring in the Semiconductor Industryby Jan Mazurek, Forward by Nicholas Askounes Ashford
December 1998, MIT Press
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Greening the Ivory Tower: Improving the Environmental Track Record of Universities, Colleges, and Other Institutionsby Sarah Hammond Creighton
April 1998, MIT Press
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The U. S. Paper Industry and Sustainable Production: An Argument for Restructuringby Maureen Smith
March 1997, MIT Press
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Breakthrough Communities: Sustainability and Justice in the Next American MetropolisEdited by M. Paloma Pavel
August 2009, MIT Press
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Sidewalks: Conflict and Negotiation Over Public Spaceby Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris and Renia Ehrenfeucht
May 2009, MIT Press
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Toward the Healthy City: People, Places, and Politics of Urban Planning
by Jason Corburn
October 2009, MIT Press
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Environmentalism and Sustainability in the Former Soviet UnionEdited by Julian Agyeman and Yelena Ogneva-Himmelberger
June 2009, MIT Press
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Localist Movements in a Global Economy: Sustainability, Justice, and Urban Development in the United Statesby David J. Hess
May 2009, MIT Press
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