The environmental crusaders : confronting disaster and mobilizing community.

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TextPublication details: University Park, Pa. : The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998Description: xxvi, 218 p. : portsISBN:

0271017759 (hc)

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363.700922 21

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Subject: Highlights citizens in Israel, the former Czechoslovakia, and the United States who challenged serious ecological problems and demanded a safe environment and an accountable society. The men and women protrayed here confronted the threat of nuclear contamination, chemical waste and pollution, exposure to garbage and industrial refuse, untreated sewage, and other serious dangers

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Maintining a democratic society -- Breaking the bands of national security secrecy -- Marching along with mothers and children -- Preserving the farmland from contamination -- Protecting the precious natural resources -- The courage of ordinary people -- Methodological appendix: tracking the environmental crusaders

Highlights citizens in Israel, the former Czechoslovakia, and the United States who challenged serious ecological problems and demanded a safe environment and an accountable society. The men and women protrayed here confronted the threat of nuclear contamination, chemical waste and pollution, exposure to garbage and industrial refuse, untreated sewage, and other serious dangers

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