From Workshop to Waste Magnet : Environmental Inequality in the Philadelphia Region /

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From Workshop to Waste Magnet presents Philadelphia's environmental history as a bracing case study in mismanagement and injustice. Tracing the complex interactions among economic decline, federal regulations, local politics, and shifting ethnic demographics, sociologist Diane Sicotte uncovers...

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Autor principal: Sicotte, Diane, 1960- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, 2016.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Minorities > Health and hygiene.
Hazardous waste sites > Environmental aspects.
Environmental justice.
Environmental health.
Environmental degradation > Social aspects.
Ecology.
SCIENCE > Chemistry > Environmental.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
Hazardous waste sites > Environmental aspects > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia Region.
Minorities > Health and hygiene > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia Region.
Environmental health > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia Region.
Environmental degradation > Social aspects > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia Region.
Environmental justice > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia Region.
Pennsylvania > Philadelphia Region.
Philadelphia Region (Pa.) > Environmental conditions.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:From Workshop to Waste Magnet presents Philadelphia's environmental history as a bracing case study in mismanagement and injustice. Tracing the complex interactions among economic decline, federal regulations, local politics, and shifting ethnic demographics, sociologist Diane Sicotte uncovers how only a few communities came to host many types of polluting or waste disposal land uses. What she finds reveals the devastation that occurs when mass quantities of society's wastes mix with toxic levels of systemic racism and inequality.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (256 pages).
ISBN:9780813574226

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