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Technoscience and Environmental Justice : Expert Cultures in a Grassroots Movement.

Ottinger, Gwen.

Technoscience and Environmental Justice : Expert Cultures in a Grassroots Movement. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (311 pages) - Urban and Industrial Environments Series . - Urban and Industrial Environments Series .

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I Forging Environmentally Just Expertise -- 1 Who Are the Experts of Environmental Health Justice? -- 2 From Science-Based Legal Advocacy to Community Organizing -- 3 Toxic Transformations -- 4 Experts, Ethics, and Environmental Justice -- 5 Middle-out Social Change -- Part II Extending Just Transformations of Expert Practice -- 6 Invisible People, Invisible Risks -- 7 Risk Assessment and Native Americans at the Cultural Crossroads -- 8 Uneven Transformations and Environmental Justice -- 9 Rupturing Engineering Education -- Afterword -- References -- About the Authors -- Index -- Series List.

Case studies exploring how experts' encounters with environmental justice are changing technical and scientific practice.

9780262298407


Technology-Environmental aspects-Case studies.
Science-Environmental aspects-Case studies.
Industries-Environmental aspects-Case studies.
Environmental justice-Case studies.
Environmental health-Case studies.
Environmental policy-Citizen participation-Case studies.
Environmental policy-Decision making-Case studies.


Electronic books.

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