Urban Recycling and the Search for Sustainable Community Development / / Adam S. Weinberg, Allan Schnaiberg, David N. Pellow.

More Americans recycle than vote. And most do so to improve their communities and the environment. But do recycling programs advance social, economic, and environmental goals? To answer this, three sociologists with expertise in urban and environmental planning have conducted the first major study o...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2000]
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Year of Publication:2000
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (232 p.) :; 7 tables, 1 line illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • One: Urban Recycling: An Empirical Test of Sustainable Community Development Proposals
  • Two: The Challenge to Achieve Sustainable Community Development: A Theoretical Framework
  • Three: Chicago's Municipally Based Recycling Program: Origins and Outcomes of a Corporate-Centered Approach
  • Four: Community-Based Recycling: The Struggles of a Social Movement
  • Five: Industrial Recycling Zones and Parks: Creating Alternative Recycling Models
  • Six: Social Linkage Programs: Recycling Practices in Evanston
  • Seven: The Treadmill of Production: Toward a Political-Economic Grounding of Sustainable Community Development
  • Eight: The Search for Sustainable Community Development: Final Notes and Thoughts
  • References
  • Index