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In: Policy sciences: integrating knowledge and practice to advance human dignity ; the journal of the Society of Policy Scientists, Volume 32, Issue 1, p. 39-58
ISSN: 0032-2687
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In: Policy sciences: integrating knowledge and practice to advance human dignity ; the journal of the Society of Policy Scientists, Volume 32, Issue 1, p. 39-58
ISSN: 0032-2687
In: Policy sciences: integrating knowledge and practice to advance human dignity ; the journal of the Society of Policy Scientists, Volume 26, Issue 1, p. 1-20
ISSN: 0032-2687
In: Policy sciences: integrating knowledge and practice to advance human dignity, Volume 26, Issue 1, p. 1-20
ISSN: 1573-0891
In: The annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Volume 511, Issue 1, p. 205-206
ISSN: 1552-3349
In: Environmental politics, Volume 11, Issue 1, p. 192-196
ISSN: 0964-4016
In: Polity, Volume 28, Issue 3, p. 285-305
ISSN: 1744-1684
In: Polity: the journal of the Northeastern Political Science Association, Volume 28, Issue 3, p. 285-306
ISSN: 0032-3497
In: The journal of environment & development: a review of international policy, Volume 13, Issue 1, p. 42-72
ISSN: 1552-5465
Public opinion polls indicate that Brazilians think that urban sanitation isa major environmental problem. Many committed environmentalists agree. And indeed, the majority of Brazilians face unreliable or nonextent garbage collection, scare drinking water, open-air sewers, unpaved streets, and water ways and beaches that are polluted with domestic waste. Despite this situation, Brazilian environmental-movement organizations pay scant attention to sanitation. Most of them emphasize instead the preservation of natural resources and the prevention of industrial pollution. To account for this disjunction between public opinion about environmental problems and the agenda of environmental-movement organizations, we offer three explanations. One focuses on the political context in which the movement was born and on that in which it matured, one focuses on the range of resources movement organizations have at their disposal, and one focuses on the fit between urban sanitation and principles of environmentalism.