Title
Hazardous wastes, industrial disasters, and environmental health risks [electronic resource] : local and global environmental struggles / Francis O. Adeola.
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9780230339538 (electronic bk.)
9780230118218
Publication Details
New York, N.Y. : Palgrave Macmillan, c2011.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xix, 235 p.) : ill.
Call Number
TD1030 .A326 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
363.72/87
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access Note
Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description
Description based on print version record.
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).
