UEPI Books

Urban and Industrial Environments

About the Series

Established in 1997, though a partnership between MIT Press and UEPI, the Urban and Industrial Environments series seeks to address issues of urban life, industry structures and activities, local and global environments and questions of social and environmental justice.

The series continues to actively solicit new manuscripts. For more information, please contact series editor, Robert Gottlieb.

Urban and Industrial Environments Books

Alternative Pathways in Science and Industry
Activism, Innovation, and the Environment in an Era of Globalization
David Hess
Cloth | May 2007
Paper | May 2007
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Barry Commoner
The Remaking of American Environmentalism
Michael Egan
Cloth | April 2007
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China Shifts Gears
Automakers, Oil, Pollution, and Development
Kelly Sims Gallagher
Cloth | May 2006
Paper | May 2006
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The Code of the City
Standards and the Hidden
Language of Place Making
Eran Ben-Joseph
Cloth | November 2005
Paper | November 2005
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Community-Driven Regulation
Balancing Development and the Environment in Vietnam
Dara O'Rourke
Paper | December 2003
Cloth | December 2003
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Concrete and Clay
Reworking Nature in New York City
Matthew Gandy
Cloth | April 2002
Paper | October 2003
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Degrees that Matter
Climate Change and the University
Ann Rappaport and Sarah Hammond Creighton
Cloth | May 2007
Paper | May 2007
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Diamond
A Struggle for Environmental Justice in Louisiana's Chemical Corridor
Steve Lerner
Cloth | March 2005
Paper | April 2006
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The Enclave Economy
Foreign Investment and Sustainable Development in Mexico's Silicon Valley
Kevin P. Gallagher and Lyuba Zarsky
Cloth | September 2007
Paper | September 2007
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Growing Smarter
Achieving Livable Communities, Environmental Justice, and Regional Equity
Robert D. Bullard (Ed.)
Cloth | February 2007
Paper | February 2007
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Environmental Justice and Environmentalism

Environmental Justice and Environmentalism
The Social Justice Challenge to the Environmental Movement Ronald Sandler and Phaedra C. Pezzullo (Eds.)
Cloth | February 2007
Paper | February 2007
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Environmentalism Unbound
Exploring New Pathways for Change
Robert Gottlieb
Cloth | February 2001
Paper | August 2002
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Garbage Wars
The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago
David Naguib Pellow
Cloth | September 2002
Paper | October 2004
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Greening the Ivory Tower
Improving the Environmental Track Record of Universities, Colleges, and Other Institutions
Sarah Hammond Creighton
Paper | April 1998
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Human Settlements and Planning for Ecological Sustainability
The Case of Mexico City
Keith Pezzoli
Cloth | March 1998
Paper | July 2000
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Just Sustainabilities
Development in an Unequal World
Julian Agyeman, Robert D. Bullard and Bob Evans (Eds.)
Cloth | March 2003
Paper | March 2003
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Labor and the Environmental Movement
The Quest for Common Ground
Brian K. Obach
Cloth | March 2004
Paper | March 2004
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The Land That Could Be
Environmentalism and Democracy in the Twenty-First Century
William A. Shutkin
Cloth | March 2000
Paper | October 2001
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Making Microchips
Policy, Globalization, and Economic Restructuring in the Semiconductor Industry
Jan Mazurek
Cloth | December 1998
Paper | April 2003
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Materials Matter
Toward a Sustainable Materials Policy
Kenneth Geiser and Barry Commoner
Cloth | June 2001
Paper | June 2001
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Noxious New York
The Racial Politics of Urban Health and Environmental Justice
Julie Sze
Cloth | December 2006
Paper | December 2006
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Power, Justice and the Environment
A Critical Appraisal of the Environmental Justice Movement
David Naguib Pellow and Robert J. Brulle (Eds.)
Cloth | November 2005
Paper | November 2005
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Precautionary Politics
Principle and Practice in Confronting Environmental Risk
Kerry H. Whiteside
Cloth | November 2006
Paper | November 2006
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Reclaiming the Environmental Debate
The Politics of Health in a Toxic Culture
Richard Hofrichter (Ed.)
Cloth | May 2000
Paper | May 200
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Reinventing Los Angeles
Nature and Community in the Global City
Robert Gottlieb
Cloth | November 2007
Paper | November 2007
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Resisting Global Toxics
Transnational Movements for Environmental Justice
David Naguib Pellow
Cloth | September 2007
Paper | September 2007
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Rivertown
Rethinking Urban Rivers
Paul Stanton Kibel (Ed.)
Cloth | September 2007
Paper | September 2007
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Silent Spill
The Organization of an Industrial Crisis
Thomas D. Beamish
Cloth | February 2002
Paper | February 2002
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Street Science
Community Knowledge and
Environmental Health Justice
Jason Corburn
Cloth | June 2005
Paper | June 2005
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Sustainability on Campus
Stories and Strategies for Change
Peggy Barlett and Geoffrey W. Chase (Eds.)
Cloth | May 2004
Paper | May 2004
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The U. S. Paper Industry and Sustainable Production
An Argument for Restructuring
Maureen Smith
Cloth | March 1997
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Uneasy Alchemy
Citizens and Experts in Louisiana's Chemical Corridor Disputes
Barbara L. Allen
Cloth | October 2003
Paper | October 2003
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Urban Place
Reconnecting with the
Natural World
Peggy F. Barlett (Ed.)
Cloth | October 2005
Paper | October 2005
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The Working Landscape
Founding, Preservation, and the Politics of Place
Peter F. Cannavò (Ed.)
Cloth | July 2007
Paper | July 2007
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