Not in our backyards: The grassroots environmental movement

American Environmentalism: The US Environmental Movement, 1970-1990

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 27-37

  Freudenberg, Nicholas ^a   Steinsapir, Carol ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental health; Environmental movement; Environmental racism; Grassroots environmental organizing; NIABY; NIMBY

Indexed keywords

EID: 85079911320     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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