Technoscience and environmental justice : expert cultures in a grassroots movement /

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This book argues that the environmental justice movement has also begun to transform science and engineering. The chapters present case studies of technical experts' encounters with environmental justice and activists and issues.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Ottinger, Gwen, Cohen, Benjamin R.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2011.
Colección:Urban and industrial environments.
Temas:
Technology > Environmental aspects > Case studies.
Science > Environmental aspects > Case studies.
Industries > Environmental aspects > Case studies.
Environmental justice > Case studies.
Environmental health > Case studies.
Environmental policy > Citizen participation > Case studies.
Environmental policy > Decision making > Case studies.
Technologie > Aspect de l'environnement > Études de cas.
Sciences > Aspect de l'environnement > Études de cas.
Justice environnementale > Études de cas.
Environnement > Politique gouvernementale > Prise de décision > Études de cas.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Environmental Policy.
SCIENCE > Environmental Science.
Environmental health
Environmental justice
Environmental policy > Citizen participation
Environmental policy > Decision making
Industries > Environmental aspects
Science > Environmental aspects
Technology > Environmental aspects
ENVIRONMENT/General
Case studies
Case studies.
Études de cas.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. Forging Environmentally Just Expertise: 1. Who Are the Experts of Environmental Health Justice? / Scott Frickel; 2. From Science-Based Legal Advocacy to Community Organizing: Opportunities and Obstacles to Transforming Patterns of Expertise and Access / Karen Hoffman; 3. Toxic Transformations: Constructing Online Audiences for Environmental Justice / Jason Delborne and Wyatt Galusky; 4. Experts, Ethics, and Environmental Justice: Communicating and Contesting Results from Personal Exposure Science / Rachel Morello-Frosch [and others]; 5. Middle-out Social Change: Expert-Led Development Interventions in Sri Lanka's Energy Sector / Dean Nieusma
  • Part II. Extending Just Transformations of Expert Practice: 6. Invisible People, Invisible Risks: How Scientific Assessments of Environmental Health Risks Overlook Minorities--and How Community Participation Can Make Them Visible / Maria Powell and Jim Powell; 7. Risk Assessment and Native Americans at the Cultural Crossroads: Making Better Science or Redefining Health? / Jaclyn R. Johnson and Darren J. Ranco; 8. Uneven Transformations and Environmental Justice: Regulatory Science, Street Science, and Pesticide Regulation in California / Raoul S. Liévanos, Jonathan K. London and Julie Sze; 9. Rupturing Engineering Education: Opportunities for Transforming Expert Identities through Community-Based Projects / Gwen Ottinger
  • Afterword: working "faultlines' / Kim Fortum.

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