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Raising Elijah : protecting our children in an age of environmental crisis / Sandra Steingraber.

Title
Raising Elijah : protecting our children in an age of environmental crisis / Sandra Steingraber.
Author
Steingraber, Sandra.
Publication
Boston, Mass. : Da Capo, 2011.

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Details

Description
xviii, 350 p.; 23 cm.
Summary
Explores the social, political, and ecological forces behind key things and moments in every kid's childhood, arguing that parents should consider environmental issues an integral part of family life.
Uniform Title
Environmental Information Services Collection.
Subject
  • Child
  • Children > Diseases
  • Children > Health and hygiene
  • Children and the environment > United States
  • Children and the environment
  • Climate Change
  • Climate change > Health aspects
  • Climatic changes > Health aspects
  • Ecotoxicology
  • Environmental Illness > prevention & control
  • Environmental Policy
  • Environmental Pollution > adverse effects
  • Environmental toxicology > United States
  • Environmentally induced diseases in children > United States
  • Pediatric toxicology > United States
  • Toxicology
  • United States
Genre/Form
Popular Work
Note
  • "A Merloyd Lawrence book."
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Milk (and terror) -- The nursery school playground (and well-informed futility) -- The grocery list (and the ozone hole) -- Pizza (and ecosystem services) -- The kitchen floor (and national security) -- Asthma (and intergenerational equity) -- The big talk (and systems theory) -- Homework (and frontiers in neurotoxicology) -- Eggs (and sperm) -- Bicycles on Main Street (and high-volume slickwater hydraulic fracturing).
ISBN
  • 0306820757
  • 9780306820755