The Rise of the U.S. Environmental Health Movement

The Rise of the U.S. Environmental Health Movement [Hardcover]

Author: Kate Davies | Language: English | ISBN: 1442221372 | Format: PDF, EPUB

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The Rise of the U.S. Environmental Health Movement
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This book, named one of Booklist's Top 10 books on sustainability in 2014, is the first to offer a comprehensive examination of the environmental health movement, which unlike many parts of the environmental movement, focuses on ways toxic chemicals and other hazardous agents in the environment effect human health and well-being. Born in 1978 when Lois Gibbs organized her neighbors to protest the health effects of a toxic waste dump in Love Canal, New York, the movement has spread across the United States and throughout the world. By placing human health at the center of its environmental argument, this movement has achieved many victories in community mobilization and legislative reform. In The Rise of the U.S. Environmental Health Movement, environmental health expert Kate Davies describes the movement’s historical, ideological, and cultural roots and analyzes its strategies and successes.

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• Hardcover: 280 pages
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (March 28, 2013)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1442221372
• ISBN-13: 978-1442221376
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #499,602 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Kate Davies' excellent book focuses on the health part of the environmental health movement and encourages us to consider its origins and accomplishments. Following an introduction that defines environmental health and places the US movement in a global context, the first section provides a fantastic synthesis of the historical and cultural history that defined the struggle to establish the right to a healthy environment.

The second half of the book addresses the contemporary movement, exploring the various organizations and how they, and the strategies they used, evolved in response to growing awareness of the subtle health effects of chemical exposures. In an excellent chapter Kate addresses efforts to adopt a precautionary approach, the misuse of risk assessment and the manufacture of uncertainty, and the general failure to address our ethical responsibilities to people and the environment.

The next two chapters are devoted to environmental justice issues and economic/business concerns, and the concluding chapter addresses how we might catalyze the social change necessary to turn the movement back into one that fosters the fundamental change needed to make environmental health the highest priority. The Rise of the U.S. Environmental Health Movement looks both backward and forward to challenge us to consider our current direction. In the future this book will provide readers with an important perspective on how the environmental health movement shaped our society.

By Steven Gilbert

This book starts with the philosophical underpinnings of how we look at environmental health, leads through the history of regulatory efforts, and ends up showing where current efforts might productively be applied. It is an excellent handbook for anyone concerned about effective public policy and regulation, for the protection of public health. It is thought provoking and an aid to understanding the mess we are in. Excellent book.

By zennmaster

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