@article{1460014,
      author = {Adeola, Francis O.,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1460014},
      title = {Hazardous wastes, industrial disasters, and environmental  health risks: local and global environmental struggles /},
      publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan,},
      abstract = {"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"--},
      recid = {1460014},
      pages = {1 online resource (xix, 235 pages ) :},
      address = {New York, N.Y. :},
      year = {2011},
}