Hazardous wastes, industrial disasters, and environmental health risks
Subtitle: local and global environmental struggles
By: Francis O. Adeola
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9780230118218
Subjects: Biohazard Release; Risk assessment; Risk Assessment; Social aspects; Hazardous Waste; Hazardous wastes; Radioactive Hazard Release; Industrial accidents; Chemical Hazard Release; Environmental health; Environmental Health
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-225) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: 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.