Hazardous wastes, industrial disaste...
Adeola, Francis O., (1956-)

 

  • Hazardous wastes, industrial disasters, and environmental health risks[electronic resource] :local and global environmental struggles /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 363.72/87
    書名/作者: Hazardous wastes, industrial disasters, and environmental health risks : local and global environmental struggles // Francis O. Adeola.
    作者: Adeola, Francis O.,
    出版者: New York, NY : : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2011.
    面頁冊數: 1 online resource (xix, 235 p.) : : ill.
    標題: Hazardous wastes - Risk assessment.
    標題: Environmental health.
    標題: Industrial accidents - Social aspects.
    標題: SOCIAL SCIENCE - Disasters & Disaster Relief.
    標題: SOCIAL SCIENCE - Regional Studies.
    標題: SOCIAL SCIENCE - Sociology
    標題: TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / Waste Management
    ISBN: 9780230339538 (electronic bk.)
    ISBN: 0230339530 (electronic bk.)
    書目註: Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-225) and index.
    內容註: PART I. HAZARDOUS WASTES, DISASTERS AND HEALTH RISKS -- Sociology of Hazardous Wastes, Disasters, and Risk -- Hazardous and Toxic Wastes as Social Problems -- Taxonomy of Hazardous Wastes -- PART II. ELECTRONIC WASTES, PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS, AND HEALTH EFFECTS -- Electronic Waste: The Dark Side of High-Tech Revolution -- Environmental Health Risks of Persistent Organic Compounds -- PART III. CONTAMINATED COMMUNITIES AND REGULATORY RESPONSES -- Communities Contaminated by Toxic Wastes and Industrial Disasters: Selected Cases -- The Regulatory Frameworks -- PART IV. CONCLUSION -- Critical Environmental Justice Movement.
    摘要、提要註: "The sociology of hazardous waste, risk, and disasters is a relatively new discipline with an increasing volume of empirical research by scholars. Francis O. Adeola focuses this book on hazardous and toxic wastes releases, industrial toxic disasters, contamination of communities and the environment, and the subsequent adverse health effects among exposed populations. He explains the emerging sociological study of risk, natural, and technological disasters, and he reviews the accumulated body of knowledge in the field up-to-date. This groundbreaking work integrates sociological perspectives with perspectives from other disciplines in the discussion of the problems posed by technological hazards both in advanced industrialized societies and in underdeveloped world"--
    電子資源: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230339538
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