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

Intro -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Photospread -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I: Hazardous Wastes, Theories of Industrial Disasters, and Population at Risk -- Chapter 1: Sociology of Hazardous Wastes, Unnatural Disasters, and Health Risks -- Chapter 2: Hazardous and Toxic Wastes: Modern Social Problem or Plague of Our Time? -- Chapter 3: Theories of Industrial Accidents, Disasters, and Catastrophes -- Chapter 4: Classification and Characterization of Hazardous Wastes -- Part II: E-Wastes, Persistent Organic Pollutants, and Health Effects -- Chapter 5: Electronic Waste: The Detritus of the High-Tech Revolution -- Chapter 6: The Hazards and Environmental Health Risks of Persistent Organic Pollutants -- Part III: Contaminated Communities, National and Transnational Regulatory Responses -- Chapter 7: Cases of Communities Contaminated by Industrial Disasters and Toxic Wastes -- Chapter 8: National and Transnational Regulatory Frameworks -- Part IV: Conclusion -- Chapter 9: From Local to Global Environmental Justice Movements -- Appendix I: Principles of Environmental Justice (PEJ) -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.

In the post-World War II period, modern societies have developed numerous heterogeneous synthetic organic compounds released into the environment and human habitats. This book addresses the threats posed by these contaminants and other hazardous wastes to human health and the health of other species in the environment.

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