Noxious New York : the racial politics of urban health and environmental justice /

'Noxious New York' examines the culture, politics, and history of the movement for environmental justice in New York City, tracking activism in four neighborhoods on issues of public health, garbage, and energy systems in the context of privatisation, deregulation, and globalisation.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sze, Julie
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2007.
Colección:Urban and industrial environments.
Temas:
Environmental justice > New York (State) > New York.
Urban health > New York (State) > New York.
Minorities > Health aspects > New York (State) > New York.
Urban health.
Environmental health.
Minorities > Health and hygiene > New York (State) > New York.
Urban Health
Environmental Health
Minority Health
Justice environnementale > New York (État) > New York.
Santé urbaine > New York (État) > New York.
Minorités > Santé et hygiène > New York (État) > New York.
Santé urbaine.
Hygiène du milieu.
MEDICAL > Health Risk Assessment.
MEDICAL > Epidemiology.
Minorities > Health and hygiene
Environmental health
Environmental justice
Urban health
Gesundheitswesen
Strukturschwaches Gebiet
Umweltpolitik
New York
New York (State) > New York
New York (N.Y.)
ENVIRONMENT/Environmental Politics & Policy
ENVIRONMENT/General
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Machine generated contents note: Introduction : environmental justice in a moment of danger
  • 1. What's old is new : public health and planning as historical antecedents to New York City's environmental justice activism
  • 2. New York City environmental justice campaigns : stigma, blight, and the politics of race and pollution
  • 3. Childhood asthma in New York City : the politics of gender, race, and recognition
  • 4. racial geography of New York City garbage : local and global trash politics
  • 5. Power to the people? : deregulation and environmental justice energy activism
  • 6. promise and the peril or, can community-based environmental justice initiatives reintegrate planning and public health in the urban environment?

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