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The Black Metropolis in the Twenty-First Century: Race, Power, and Politics of Place
ISBN: 9780742543294 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This book brings together key essays that seek to make visible and expand our understanding of the role of government (policies, programs, and investments) in shaping cities and metropolitan regions; the costs and consequences of uneven urban and regional growth patterns; suburban sprawl and public health, transportation, and economic development; and the enduring connection of place, space, and race in the era of increased globalization. Whether intended or unintended, many government policies (housing, transportation, land use, environmental, economic development, education, etc.) have...
This book brings together key essays that seek to make visible and expand our understanding of the role of government (policies, programs, and investm...
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205,71 |
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The Black Metropolis in the Twenty-First Century: Race, Power, and Politics of Place
ISBN: 9780742543287 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This book brings together key essays that seek to make visible and expand our understanding of the role of government (policies, programs, and investments) in shaping cities and metropolitan regions; the costs and consequences of uneven urban and regional growth patterns; suburban sprawl and public health, transportation, and economic development; and the enduring connection of place, space, and race in the era of increased globalization. Whether intended or unintended, many government policies (housing, transportation, land use, environmental, economic development, education, etc.) have...
This book brings together key essays that seek to make visible and expand our understanding of the role of government (policies, programs, and investm...
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548,54 |
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The Wrong Complexion for Protection: How the Government Response to Disaster Endangers African American Communities
ISBN: 9780814799932 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name: -Table Normal-; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow: yes; mso-style-parent: --; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom: .0001pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family: -Times New Roman-;} When the images of desperate, hungry, thirsty, sick, mostly black people circulated in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, it became apparent to the whole country that race did indeed matter when it came to...
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435,90 |
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Race, Place, and Environmental Justice After Hurricane Katrina: Struggles to Reclaim, Rebuild, and Revitalize New Orleans and the Gulf Coast
ISBN: 9780367097141 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall near New Orleans leaving death and destruction across the Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama Gulf Coast counties. The lethargic and inept emergency response that followed exposed institutional flaws, poor planning, and false assumptions that are built into the emergency response and homeland security plans and programs. Questions linger: What went wrong? Can it happen again? Is our government equipped to plan for, mitigate, respond to, and recover from natural and manmade disasters? Can the public trust government response to be fair? Does...
On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall near New Orleans leaving death and destruction across the Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama Gulf...
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710,17 |
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In Search of the New South: The Black Urban Experience in the 1970s and 1980s
ISBN: 9780817305413 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Dedicated to the struggling Third World people in America, "In Search of the New South" explores the extent to which blacks have shared in the growth and prosperity attributed to the area known as the New South . A timely and insightful analysis of the changes that have occurred in the Old South, a broad belt that stretched from Virginia to Texas, this volume focuses on case studies of six large southern cities Houston, New Orleans, Atlanta, Memphis, Birmingham, and Tampa.Focusing specifically on the 1970s throughout the mid-1980s, Bullard and his colleagues have delineated the changes... Dedicated to the struggling Third World people in America, "In Search of the New South" explores the extent to which blacks have shared in the gro... |
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97,90 |
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The Quest for Environmental Justice: Human Rights and the Politics of Pollution
ISBN: 9781578051205 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 393 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This much anticipated follow-up to Dr. Robert D. Bullard's highly acclaimed Unequal Protection: Environmental Justice and Communities of Color captures the voices of frontline warriors who are battling environmental injustice and human rights abuses at the grassroots level around the world, and challenging government and industry. policies and globalization trends that place people of color and the poor at special risk.
Part I presents an overview of the early environmental justice movement and highlights key leadership roles assumed by women activists. Part II examines the lives of... This much anticipated follow-up to Dr. Robert D. Bullard's highly acclaimed Unequal Protection: Environmental Justice and Communities of Color ...
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72,43 |
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Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class, and Environmental Quality, Third Edition
ISBN: 9780367319281 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This book provides the major economic, social, and psychological impacts associated with the siting of noxious facilities and their significance in mobilizing the African American community. It explores the barriers to environmental and social justice experienced by African Americans.
This book provides the major economic, social, and psychological impacts associated with the siting of noxious facilities and their significance in mo...
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636,71 |
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Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class, and Environmental Quality, Third Edition
ISBN: 9780813367927 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. To be poor, working-class, or a person of color in the United States often means bearing a disproportionate share of the country's environmental problems. Starting with the premise that all Americans have a basic right to live in a healthy environment, Dumping in Dixie chronicles the efforts of five African American communities, empowered by the civil rights movement, to link environmentalism with issues of social justice. In the third edition, Bullard speaks to us from the front lines of the environmental justice movement about new developments in environmental racism, different...
To be poor, working-class, or a person of color in the United States often means bearing a disproportionate share of the country's environmental probl...
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225,25 |
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Race, Place, and Environmental Justice After Hurricane Katrina: Struggles to Reclaim, Rebuild, and Revitalize New Orleans and the Gulf Coast
ISBN: 9780813344249 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall near New Orleans leaving death and destruction across the Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama Gulf Coast counties. The lethargic and inept emergency response that followed exposed institutional flaws, poor planning, and false assumptions that are built into the emergency response and homeland security plans and programs. Questions linger: What went wrong? Can it happen again? Is our government equipped to plan for, mitigate, respond to, and recover from natural and manmade disasters? Can the public trust government response to be fair? Does...
On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall near New Orleans leaving death and destruction across the Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama Gulf...
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225,25 |
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Growing Smarter: Achieving Livable Communities, Environmental Justice, and Regional Equity
ISBN: 9780262524704 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The smart growth movement aims to combat urban and suburban sprawl by promoting livable communities based on pedestrian scale, diverse populations, and mixed land use. But, as this book documents, smart growth has largely failed to address issues of social equity and environmental justice. Smart growth sometimes results in gentrification and displacement of low- and moderate-income families in existing neighborhoods, or transportation policies that isolate low-income populations. Growing Smarter is one of the few books to view smart growth from an environmental justice perspective,... The smart growth movement aims to combat urban and suburban sprawl by promoting livable communities based on pedestrian scale, diverse populations,... |
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220,33 |
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Invisible Houston: The Black Experience in Boom and Bust
ISBN: 9780890963579 / Angielski / Miękka / 1987 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Houston was Boomtown USA in the 1970s, growing through tremendous immigration of people and through frequent annexation of outlying areas. But in the shadow of the high-rise "petropolis" was another city ignored by and invisible to Houston municipal boosters and the national media. Black Houston, the largest black community in the South, remained largely untouched by the benefits of the boom but bore many of the burdens.
Robert D. Bullard systematically explores major demographic, social, economic, and political factors that helped make Houston the "golden buckle" of the Sunbelt. He then... Houston was Boomtown USA in the 1970s, growing through tremendous immigration of people and through frequent annexation of outlying areas. But in the ...
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68,52 |
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Odyssey: The Adventures of a WWII Teenaged Sailor
ISBN: 9781542788540 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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80,22 |
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The Collected Letters of Robert E. Howard, Volume 2: Volume 2 1930-1932
ISBN: 9781955446037 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 530 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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152,84 |
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The Collected Letters of Robert E. Howard, Volume 2: Volume 2 1930-1932
ISBN: 9781955446020 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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191,06 |
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The Collected Letters of Robert E. Howard, Volume 1
ISBN: 9781955446013 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 438 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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114,62 |
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The Collected Letters of Robert E. Howard, Volume 3
ISBN: 9781955446044 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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191,06 |
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The Collected Letters of Robert E. Howard, Volume 1
ISBN: 9781955446006 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 438 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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175,77 |
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The Collected Letters of Robert E. Howard, Volume 3
ISBN: 9781955446051 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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133,73 |
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The Wrong Complexion for Protection: How the Government Response to Disaster Endangers African American Communities
ISBN: 9780814799949 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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83,21 |
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Just Sustainabilities: Development in an Unequal World
ISBN: 9780262511315 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Environmental activists and academics alike are realizing that a sustainable society must be a just one. Environmental degradation is almost always linked to questions of human equality and quality of life. Throughout the world, those segments of the population that have the least political power and are the most marginalized are selectively victimized by environmental crises. Just Sustainabilities argues that social and environmental justice within and between nations should be an integral part of the policies and agreements that promote sustainable development. The book addresses... Environmental activists and academics alike are realizing that a sustainable society must be a just one. Environmental degradation is almost always... |
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144,09 |
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