Poisoned Places
Seeking Environmental Justice In A Contaminated World
1st Edition
Book
Hardback
225 pages
978-0-8133-8741-3 (ISBN)
Description
In this text, Michael Edelstein considers the importance importance of environmental contamination as a challenge to the new paradigm of sustainability and explores the implications and the meaning of pollution for our identification with place. The book points towards an eco-psychology based not on an idealized relationship to nature but rather on a stark appraisal of the worlds in which we actually live.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-8133-8741-3 (9780813387413)
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Content
The challenge of environmental justice given a legacy of pollution; environmental justice and psychosocial impacts assessment - what we know about the consequences of contamination for people; America's Bhopal - the impacts of acute contamination events in a racially and economically diverse community; chronic contamination - the experience beyond Love Canal; superfund hasn't been super fun - the adverse impacts of cleaning up our toxic legacy; mitigation and the rationalization of risk; the legacy of not-in-my-backyardism - a grassroots force for paradigmatic change; psychological impact assessment and environmental decision-making - do people matter?; shifting definitions of risk versus shifting paradigms of risk; the global impact of contamination; culture, justice and the meaning of contamination; apathy versus action - the dangers of adapting to a contaminated world and the centrality of empowerment in achieving environmental justice.