Alienation in the environmental movement: Regressive tendencies in the struggle for environmental justice

Capitalism, Nature, Socialism

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1-43

  Sperber, Irwin ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE; ENVIRONMENTALISM; IDEOLOGY; LEADERSHIP;

EID: 0242274073     PISSN: 10455752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/104557503101245421     Document Type: Article

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