Hazardous Wastes, Industrial Disasters, and Environmental Health Risks - Francis O. Adeola

Hazardous Wastes, Industrial Disasters, and Environmental Health Risks

Local and Global Environmental Struggles
Buch | Softcover
235 Seiten
2015
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-51776-0 (ISBN)
53,45 inkl. MwSt
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

FRANCIS ADEOLA Professor of Sociology at University of New Orleans, USA.

PART I: HAZARDOUS WASTES, DISASTERS AND HEALTH RISKS Sociology of Hazardous Wastes, Disasters, and Risk Hazardous and Toxic Wastes as Social Problems 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

Zusatzinfo XIX, 235 p.
Verlagsort Basingstoke
Sprache englisch
Maße 140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Biologie Ökologie / Naturschutz
Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Makrosoziologie
ISBN-10 1-137-51776-X / 113751776X
ISBN-13 978-1-137-51776-0 / 9781137517760
Zustand Neuware
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