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
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Measuring environmental inequalities in the Philadelphia area in 2010
  • Theorizing urban environmental inequality
  • The rise of industrial Philadelphia
  • Environmental inequality from 1950 to 1969
  • From workshop to waste magnet : environmental burdening after 1970
  • Intersectionality and environmental inequality in the Philadelphia region
  • Toward a "rustbelt" theory of U.S. environmental inequality.

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