February 2020
Climate Change from the Streets: How Conflict and Collaboration Strengthen the Environmental Justice Movement
Although the science of climate change is clear, policy decisions about how to respond to its effects remain contentious. Even when such decisions claim to be guided by objective knowledge, they are made and implemented through political institutions and relationships – and all the competing interests and power struggles that this implies.Michael Mendez’s new book Climate Change from the Streets: How Conflict and Collaboration Strengthen the Environmental Justice Movement (Yale University Press, 2020) tells a timely story of people, place,…
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