War on Waste: Can America Win Its Battle With Garbage?

War on Waste: Can America Win Its Battle With Garbage?

War on Waste offers a comprehensive analysis of the solid waste problem and the major alternatives that could provide viable solutions to the crisis. Do we want to take our throwaway society from landfilling to "moonfilling" via the "consumerism blitz" and the "end-of-the-pipe" approach, or do we want to provide political and economic support to reasoned waste alternatives--reduction, reuse, recycling? This book is a contemporary history and sociology of solid waste from the turn of the century to the present day and was adapted from an award-winning report by UCLA graduate students. It provides a more substantive analysis of waste management than the recent excellent critique of mass incineration, Rush To Burn: Solving America's Garbage Crisis ( LJ 7/89). To stimulate public debate on this important topic, libraries need both. -Diane M. Brown, Univ. of California Lib., Berkeley Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. Robert Gottlieb is the Henry R. Luce Professor of Urban Environmental Studies and Director of the Urban Environmental Policy Institute. He is the author and co-author of ten books, including: The Next Los Angeles: The Struggle for a Livable City with UEPI faculty and staff Mark Vallianatos, Regina Freer and Peter Dreier (UC Press forthcoming 2004); Forcing the Spring: The Transformation of the American Environmental Movement (Island Press, 1993); and Environmentalism Unbound: Exploring New Pathways for Change (MIT Press, 2001). He is also the editor of the MIT Press series, "Urban and Industrial Environments." Professor Gottlieb was the 1996 University of California Distinguished Wellness Lecturer and has received the award on two occasions for supervising the most outstanding student project from the American Institute for Collegiate Planners. Used Book in Good Condition