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

eng

Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-225) and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

Hazardous wastes, industrial disasters, and environmental health risks

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704384797

Francis O. Adeola

local and global environmental struggles

"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

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)