WEEK 9 Gottlieb Readings

Students:

I apologize for the lack of communication, but this week's readings for Gottlieb are CHs 8 & 9. You WILL be responsible for them on the final, as reflected in the essay choice on the study guide:

4. Robert Gottlieb (2007) Reinventing Los Angeles: Nature and Community in the Global City proposes a new strategy for social and environmental change that involves reframing and linking the movements for environmental justice and pollution prevention. According to Gottlieb, the environmental movement's narrow conception of environment has isolated it from vital issues of everyday life, such as workplace safety, healthy communities, and food security, that are often viewed separately as industrial, community, or agricultural concerns. This fragmented approach prevents an awareness of how these issues are also environmental issues. What does Gottlieb argue should be done to broaden this narrow conception; be specific (e.g., what does he say regarding nature and the community in the city, transportation and sprawl, food systems, globalization and imperial reach, or immigration). In presenting Gottlieb's positon weigh in with your own scholarly perspective. Don't just restate Gottlieb's views, hold them up to critical scrutiny. In other words, provide a reveiw of his ideas using knowledge you picked up in USP2 (cite your sources).