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Toxic Town
In 1924, IBM built its first plant in Endicott, New York. Now, Endicott is a contested toxic waste site. With its landscape thoroughly contaminated by carcinogens, Endicott is the subject of one of the nation's largest corporate-state mitigation efforts. Yet despite the efforts of IBM and the U.S. government, Endicott residents remain skeptical that the mitigation systems employed were designed with their best interests at heart. InToxic Town,Peter C. Littletracks and critically diagnoses the experiences of Endicott residents as they learn to live with high-tech pollution, community transformation, scientific expertise, corporate-state power, and risk mitigation technologies. By weaving together the insights of anthropology, political ecology, disaster studies, and science and technology studies, the book explores questions of theoretical and practical import for understanding the politics of risk and the ironies of technological disaster response in a time when IBM'sstatedmission is to build a Smarter Planet.Little critically reflects on IBM's new corporate tagline, arguing for a political ecology of corporate social and environmental responsibility and accountability that places the social and environmental politics of risk mitigation front and center.Ultimately, Little argues that we will need much more than hollow corporate taglines, claims of corporate responsibility, and attempts to mitigate high-tech disasters to truly build a smarter planet.
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Toxic communities : environmental racism, industrial pollution, and residential mobility
\"From St. Louis to New Orleans, from Baltimore to Oklahoma City, there are poor and minority neighborhoods so beset by pollution that just living in them can be hazardous to your health. Due to entrenched segregation, zoning ordinances that privilege wealthier communities, or because businesses have found the 'paths of least resistance,' there are many hazardous waste and toxic facilities in these communities, leading residents to experience health and wellness problems on top of the race and class discrimination most already experience. Taking stock of the recent environmental justice scholarship, Toxic Communities examines the connections among residential segregation, zoning, and exposure to environmental hazards. Renowned environmental sociologist Dorceta Taylor focuses on the locations of hazardous facilities in low-income and minority communities and shows how they have been dumped on, contaminated and exposed.Drawing on an array of historical and contemporary case studies from across the country, Taylor explores controversies over racially-motivated decisions in zoning laws, eminent domain, government regulation (or lack thereof), and urban renewal. She provides a comprehensive overview of the debate over whether or not there is a link between environmental transgressions and discrimination, drawing a clear picture of the state of the environmental justice field today and where it is going. In doing so, she introduces new concepts and theories for understanding environmental racism that will be essential for environmental justice scholars. A fascinating landmark study, Toxic Communities greatly contributes to the study of race, the environment, and space in the contemporary United States\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Determination of Environmental Remediation End States
Sites with radioactive contamination may require action to protect people and the environment and to enable transition to a different future use. To support environmental management of these sites, this publication presents a process to determine the \"end state\" of the site to be remediated or being remediated, and implications for the site future use and necessary controls. The approach is intended to assist those responsible for a site in making an informed and transparent decision on what is the mutually agreed end state. It provides a common basis for all stakeholders involved in the decision-making process, who are working on achieving consensus, so that the potential for misunderstanding is reduced.
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Toxic Tourism
Winner of the: 2010 Jane Jacobs Urban
Communication Book Award,
sponsored by National Communication Association 2007
James A. Winans-Herbert A. Wichelns Memorial Award for
Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric and Public Address,
sponsored by National Communication Association 2007
Best Book of the Year for Critical and Cultural Studies,
sponsored by National Communication Association 2007
Christine L. Oravec Research Award,
sponsored by Environmental Communications Division of the
National Communication Association
The first book length study of the environmental justice
movement, tourism, and the links between race, class, and
waste Tourism is at once both a beloved pastime and a
denigrated form of popular culture. Romanticized for its promise
of pleasure, tourism is also potentially toxic, enabling the
deadly exploitation of the cultures and environments visited. For
many decades, the environmental justice movement has offered
“toxic tours,” non-commercial trips intended to
highlight people and locales polluted by poisonous chemicals. Out
of these efforts and their popular reception, a new understanding
of democratic participation in environmental decision-making has
begun to arise. Phaedra C. Pezzullo examines these tours as a
tactic of resistance and for their potential in reducing the
cultural and physical distance between hosts and visitors.
Pezzullo begins by establishing the ambiguous roles tourism and
the toxic have played in the U.S. cultural imagination since the
mid-20th century in a range of spheres, including Hollywood
films, women’s magazines, comic books, and scholarly
writings. Next, drawing on participant observation, interviews,
documentaries, and secondary accounts in popular media, she
identifies and examines a range of tourist performances enabled
by toxic tours. Extended illustrations of the racial, class, and
gender politics involved include Louisiana’s “Cancer
Alley,” California’s San Francisco Bay Area, and the
Mexican border town of Matamoros. Weaving together social
critiques of tourism and community responses to toxic chemicals,
this critical, rhetorical, and cultural analysis brings into
focus the tragedy of ongoing patterns of toxification and our
assumptions about travel, democracy, and pollution.
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From love canal to environmental justice : the politics of hazardous waste on the Canada-U.S. border
Tracing the history of environmental policy and politics from the seminal moments of 1978 at Love Canal to current disputes, this in-depth study offers a cross-border analysis of the modern environmental movement.
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Paradise falls : the true story of an environmental catastrophe
Lois Gibbs, Luella Kenny, and Barbara Quimby thought they had found a slice of the American dream when they and their families moved onto the quiet streets of Love Canal, a picturesque middle-class hamlet by Niagara Falls in the winter of 1977, the town had record snowfalls, and in the spring, rains filled the earth with water like a sponge and the basements of the neighbourhood's homes with a pungent odour. It was the sweet, synthetic smell of chemicals. Then, one by one, the children of the more than 800 families that made Love Canal their home started getting very sick. In this propulsive work of narrative reportage, Keith O'Brien uncovers how Lois, Luella, Barbara and other local mothers uncovered the poisonous secret of Love Canal - that they were living on the site where industrial employer Hooker Chemical had been dumping toxic waste for years, and covering it up.
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Nuclear Decommissioning, Waste Management, and Environmental Site Remediation
Decommissioning nuclear facilities is a relatively new field, which has developed rapidly in the last ten years. It involves materials that may be highly radioactive and therefore require sophisticated methods of containment and remote handling. The wastes arising from decommissioning are hazardous and have to be stored or disposed of safely in order to protect the environment and future generations. Nuclear decommissioning work must be carried out to the highest possible standards to protect workers, the general public and the environment. This book describes the techniques used for dismantling redundant nuclear facilities, the safe storage of radioactive wastes and the restoration of nuclear licensed sites. * Describes the techniques used for dismantling nuclear facilities, safe storage of radioactive wastes, and the restoration of nuclear licensed facilities. * Provides the reader with decommissioning experience accumulated over 15 years by UKAEA. * Contains valuable information to personnel new to decommissioning and waste management.
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