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  Title

  Hazardous wastes, industrial disasters, and environmental health risks : local and global environmental struggles

  Author

  Adeola, Francis O., 1956-  

  Publisher:

  Palgrave Macmillan,

  Pub date:

  2011.

  Pages:

  xix, 235 p. :

  ISBN:

  9780230118218

  Item info:

  1 copy available at Sugar Grove Campus --Todd Library.
  

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    TD1030 .A326 2011	1	Book	Available, On shelf

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  ISBN:

  9780230118218

  ISBN:

  0230118216

  Personal Author:

  Adeola, Francis O., 1956-

  Title:

  Hazardous wastes, industrial disasters, and environmental health risks : local and global environmental struggles / Francis O. Adeola.

  Publication info:

  New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

  Physical description:

  xix, 235 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

  Contents:

  Sociology of hazardous wastes, disasters, and risk -- Hazardous and toxic wastes as a social problem -- Taxonomy of hazardous wastes -- Electronic waste: the dark side of the high-tech revolution -- Environmental health risks of persistent organic compounds -- Communities contaminated by toxic wastes and industrial disasters: selected cases -- The regulatory frameworks -- Conclusion: critical environmental justice struggles -- Appendix I: principles of environmental justice (PEJ).

  Summary:

  "The sociology of hazardous waste, risk, and disasters is a relatively new discipline with an increasing volume of empirical research by scholars. Francis O. Adeola focuses this book on hazardous and toxic wastes releases, industrial toxic disasters, contamination of communities and the environment, and the subsequent adverse health effects among exposed populations. He explains the emerging sociological study of risk, natural, and technological disasters, and he reviews the accumulated body of knowledge in the field up-to-date. This groundbreaking work integrates sociological perspectives with perspectives from other disciplines in the discussion of the problems posed by technological hazards both in advanced industrialized societies and in underdeveloped world"-- Provided by publisher.

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  Subject term:

  Hazardous wastes--Risk assessment.

  Subject term:

  Environmental health.

  Subject term:

  Industrial accidents--Social aspects.

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