Hazardous wastes, industrial disasters, and environmental health risks : local and global environmental struggles / Francis O. Adeola.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.Description: xix, 235 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780230118218
  • 0230118216
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 363.72/87 23
LOC classification:
  • TD1030 .A326 2011
NLM classification:
  • WA 788
Online resources:
Contents:
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).
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.
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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).

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.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-225) and index.

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