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Autore: | Adeola Francis O |
Titolo: | Hazardous Wastes, Industrial Disasters, and Environmental Health Risks [[electronic resource] ] : Local and Global Environmental Struggles / / by Francis O. Adeola |
Pubblicazione: | New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2011 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. 2011. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (257 p.) |
Disciplina: | 363.7287 |
Soggetto topico: | Environmental sociology |
Social structure | |
Equality | |
Environment | |
Area studies | |
Sociology | |
Environmental health | |
Environmental Sociology | |
Social Structure, Social Inequality | |
Environment, general | |
Area Studies | |
Sociology, general | |
Environmental Health | |
Classificazione: | SOC040000SOC053000SOC026000 |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
Sommario/riassunto: | The sociology of hazardous waste, risk, and disasters is a relatively new discipline. This book focuses on hazardous and toxic wastes releases, industrial toxic disasters, contamination of communities and the environment, and the subsequent adverse health effects among exposed populations. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Hazardous Wastes, Industrial Disasters, and Environmental Health Risks |
ISBN: | 1-283-38095-1 |
9786613380951 | |
0-230-33953-0 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910789894303321 |
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