Main Title |
Reclaiming the environmental debate : the politics of health in a toxic culture / |
Other Authors |
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Publisher |
MIT Press, |
Year Published |
2000 |
OCLC Number |
42296574 |
ISBN |
0262082845; 9780262082846; 0262581825 (pbk. : alk. paper); 9780262581820 (pbk. : alk. paper); 9780262581844 (hbk. : alk. paper); 0262581841 (hbk. : alk. paper) |
Subjects |
Environmental health--Political aspects ;
Environmental justice ;
Environmental health--Government policy ;
Green movement ;
Milieugezondheidskunde ;
Politieke aspecten ;
Overheidsbeleid ;
Milieutoxicologie ;
Ecologische beweging ;
Environmental Health--United States ;
Public Policy--United States
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Holdings |
Library |
Call Number |
Additional Info |
Location |
Last Modified |
Checkout Status |
EJBM |
RA566.R43 2000 |
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Headquarters Library/Washington,DC |
10/04/2002 |
EJEM |
RA566.R43 2000 |
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OCSPP Chemical Library/Washington,DC |
01/03/2003 |
ENAM |
RA566.R43 2000 |
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Region 7 Library, Kansas City, KS |
06/29/2001 |
DISPERSAL |
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Collation |
vi, 356 p. ; 23 cm. |
Notes |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-342) and index. |
Contents Notes |
Introduction: critical perspectives on human health and the environment / Richard Hofrichter -- The social production of cancer: a walk upstream / Sandra Steingraber -- Deconstructing standards, reconstructing worker health / Charles Levenstein and John Wooding -- Brownfields and the redevelopment of communities: linking health, economy, and justice / William Shutkin and Rafael Mares -- Place matters / Mindy Thompson Fullilove and Robert E. Fullilove III -- Akwesasne: a Native American community's resistance to cultural and environmental damage / Alice Tarbell and Mary Arquette -- When harm is not necessary: risk assessment as diversion / Mary H. O'Brien -- The ecological tyranny of the bottom line: the environmental and social consequences of economic reductionism / John Bellamy Foster -- Silencing spring: corporate propaganda and the takeover of the environmental movement / Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber -- The globalization of corporate culture and its role in the environmental crisis / Joshua Karliner -- Selling "Mother Earth": advertising and the myth of the natural / Robin Andersen -- Green living in a toxic world: the pitfalls and promises of everyday environmentalism / Marcy Darnovsky -- Rethinking technoscience in risk society: toxicity as textuality / Timothy W. Luke -- Silencing the voice of the people: how mining companies subvert local opposition / Al Gedicks -- Bearing witness or taking action?: toxic tourism and environmental justice / Giovanna Di Chiro -- For generations yet to come: Junebug Productions' environmental justice project / John O'Neal -- Media art and activism: a model for collective action / Branda Miller. |