Title: Hazardous wastes, industrial disasters, and environmental health risks
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"--
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, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disasters & Disaster Relief, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General