Industrial Disasters, Toxic Waste, and Community Impact Health Effects and Environmental Justice Struggles Around the Globe

by Adeola, Francis O.

• ISBN13: 9780739147467
• ISBN10: 0739147463
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-09-27
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

Industrial Disasters, Toxic Waste, and Community Impact focuses on hazardous and toxic wastes releases, industrial disasters, the consequent contamination of communities and the environment, and the subsequent social impacts, including adverse health effects, deaths and property destruction, psychosocial problems, and community disruption. This book explains the emergence of a sociological study of risk and of natural, technological, and hybrid disasters, along with a review of the accumulated body of knowledge in the field. It is unique in its integration of sociological perspectives with perspectives from other disciplines when discussing the problems posed by technological hazards both in advanced industrialized societies and in the underdeveloped world.

Author Biography

Francis O. Adeola is professor of sociology at the University of New Orleans.

Table of Contents

Figures	p. ix
Tables	p. xi
Photospreads	p. xiii
Abbreviations	p. xv
Preface	p. xix
Acknowledgments	p. xxi
Hazardous Wastes, Theories of Industrial Disaster, and Population at Risk	p. 1
Sociology of Hazardous Wastes, Unnatural Disasters, and Health Risks	p. 3
Hazardous and Toxic Wastes: Modern Social Problem or Plague Our Time?	p. 15
Theories of Industrial Accidents, Disasters, and Catastrophes	p. 27
Classification and Characterization of Hazardous Wastes	p. 53
E-Wastes, Persistent Organic Pollutants, and Health Effects	p. 85
Electronic Waste: The Detritus of the High-Tech Revolution	p. 87
The Hazards and Environmental Health Risks of Persistent Organic Pollutants	p. 115
Contaminated Communities, National and Transnational Regulatory Responses	p. 133
Cases of Communities Contaminated by Industrial Disasters and Toxic Wastes	p. 135
Photospreads	p. 181
National and Transnational Regulatory Frameworks	p. 199
Conclusion	p. 221
From Local to Global Environmental Justice Movements	p. 223
Principles of Environmental Justice (PEJ)	p. 243
Glossary	p. 247
Bibliography	p. 253
Index	p. 283
About the Author	p. 291
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