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Noxious New York : the racial politics of urban health and environmental justice
- Title
- Noxious New York : the racial politics of urban health and environmental justice / Julie Sze.
- Author
- Sze, Julie.
- Publication
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2007], ©2007.
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- Description
- x, 282 pages : illustrations, map; 24 cm.
- Summary
- 'Noxious New York' examines the culture, politics, and history of the movement for environmental justice in New York City, tracking activism in four neighborhoods on issues of public health, garbage, and energy systems in the context of privatisation, deregulation, and globalisation.
- Series Statement
- Urban and industrial environments
- Uniform Title
- Urban and industrial environments.
- Subjects
- Environmental justice
- Public health
- Gesundheitswesen
- Strukturschwaches Gebiet
- New York
- Aktivism > Milöaspekter > Förenta staterna > New York
- Rasism > Miljöaspekter > Förenta staterna > New York
- New York (N.Y.)
- Justice environnementale > New York (État) > New York
- Environmental justice > New York (State) > New York
- Umweltpolitik
- Minorities > Health aspects > New York (State) > New York
- Minorités > Santé et hygiène > New York (État) > New York
- Minority Health
- Hälsa > Miljöaspekter > Förenta staterna > New York
- New York, NY
- Environmental Health
- Urban Health
- Public health > New York (State) > New York
- New York (State) > New York
- Minoritetsgrupper > Miljöaspekt > Förenta staterna > New York
- Miljöpolitik > Miljöaspekter > Förenta staterna > New York
- Folkhälsa > Miljöaspekter > Förenta staterna > New York
- Santé urbaine > New York (État) > New York
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-268) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: envirnomental justice in a moment of danger -- What's old is new: public health and planning as historical antecedents to New York City's environmental justice activism -- New York City environmental justice campaigns: stigma, blight, and the politics of race and pollution -- Childhood asthma in New York City: the politics of gender, race, and recognition -- The racial geography of New York City garbage: local and global trash politics -- Power to the people? Deregulation and environmental justice energy activism -- The promise and the peril or, can community-based environmental justice initiatives reintegrate planning and public health in the urban environment? -- Conclusion: what we can learn from New York City environmentalism justice activism.
- ISBN
- 0262195542
- 9780262195546
- 0262693429
- 9780262693424
- LCCN
- 2006049437
- 99978533423
- OCLC
- ocm70267229
- 70267229
- SCSB-5302520
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries