Hazardous Wastes, Industrial Disasters, and Environmental Health Risks [[electronic resource] ] : Local and Global Environmental Struggles / / by Francis O. Adeola
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Adeola Francis O
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| Titolo: |
Hazardous Wastes, Industrial Disasters, and Environmental Health Risks [[electronic resource] ] : Local and Global Environmental Struggles / / by Francis O. Adeola
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| 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 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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