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The toxic schoolhouse /
The Toxic Schoolhouseis a collection of articles on chemical hazards endangering students, teachers, and staff in the education system of the United States and Canada. Some of the articles were originally published in a special issue of New Solutions: A Journal of Occupational and Environmental Poli...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amityville, New York :
Baywood Publishing Company, Inc.,
2014.
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| Colección: | Work, health, and environment series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The Toxic Schoolhouseis a collection of articles on chemical hazards endangering students, teachers, and staff in the education system of the United States and Canada. Some of the articles were originally published in a special issue of New Solutions: A Journal of Occupational and Environmental Policy, but all have been updated and several new articles have been added. The book is organized in three sections. The first describes problems ranging from the failures of coordination, monitoring, and siting of school buildings to the hazards of exposure to toxic substances, including lead and PCBs. The second section captures the voices of activists seeking change and describes community and union organizing efforts to improve school conditions. The third section covers policy solutions. The authors include academics, union staff and rank-and-file activists, parent organization leaders, and public health professionals. ABOUT THE EDITORS MADELEINE KANGSEN SCAMMELL, DSc is an assistant professor of environmental health at the Boston University School of Public Health. She leads the Community Engagement and Research Translation Cores of the Boston University Superfund Research Program. CHARLES LEVENSTEIN, PhD, MSc, is an economist and policy analyst. He is professor emeritus in the Department of Work Environment at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell, having retired from teaching in 2003, an adjunct professor of occupational health at Tufts University School of Medicine, and one of the leading researchers on social factors in occupational and environmental health. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (260 pages) : illustrations, tables |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780895038524 0895038528 9780895038531 0895038536 |