Hazardous wastes, industrial disasters, and environmental health risks : local and global environmental struggles /

"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 environ...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Adeola, Francis O., 1956-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Temas:
Hazardous wastes > Risk assessment.
Environmental health.
Industrial accidents > Social aspects.
Hazardous wastes.
Risk assessment.
Environmental Health
Hazardous Waste
Risk Assessment
Biohazard Release
Chemical Hazard Release
Radioactive Hazard Release
Déchets dangereux > Évaluation du risque.
Hygiène du milieu.
Déchets dangereux.
Évaluation du risque.
hazardous waste.
risk assessment.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Disasters & Disaster Relief.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Regional Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Environmental > Waste Management.
Risk assessment
Hazardous wastes
Environmental health
Hazardous wastes > Risk assessment
Industrial accidents > Social aspects
Sonderabfall.
Gesundheitsgefährdung.
Miljöfarligt avfall.
Industriolyckor.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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