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Hazardous wastes, industrial disasters, and environmental health risks : local and global environmental struggles
- Title
- Hazardous wastes, industrial disasters, and environmental health risks : local and global environmental struggles / Francis O. Adeola.
- Author
- Adeola, Francis O., 1956-
- Publication
- New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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- Description
- p.; cm.
- 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"--
- Subject
- Hazardous wastes > Risk assessment
- Environmental health
- Industrial accidents > Social aspects
- Hazardous wastes
- Risk assessment
- Environmental Health
- Hazardous Waste
- Risk Assessment
- Biohazard Release
- Chemical Hazard Release
- Radioactive Hazard Release
- hazardous waste
- risk assessment
- SOCIAL SCIENCE > Disasters & Disaster Relief
- SOCIAL SCIENCE > Regional Studies
- SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General
- Risk assessment
- Hazardous wastes
- Environmental health
- Hazardous wastes > Risk assessment
- Industrial accidents > Social aspects
- Sonderabfall
- Gesundheitsgefährdung
- Miljöfarligt avfall
- Industriolyckor
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: -- PART I: Hazardous Wastes, Disasters and Health Risks * Sociology of Hazardous Wastes, Disasters, and Risk * Hazardous and Toxic Wastes as Social Problem * Taxonomy of Hazardous Wastes * PART II: Electronic Wastes, Persistent Organic Pollutants, and Health Effects * Electronic Waste: The Dark Side of High-Tech Revolution * Environmental Health Risks of Persistent Organic Compounds * PART III: Contaminated Communities and Regulatory Responses * Communities Contaminated by Toxic Wastes and Industrial Disasters: Selected Cases * The Regulatory Frameworks * PART IV: Conclusion * Critical Environmental Justice Movement.
- ISBN
- 9780230118218
- 0230118216
- LCCN
- 2011017519
- OCLC
- ocn704384797
- 704384797
- SCSB-9245863
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library