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| Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Sze, Julie. Noxious New York. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2007 (DLC) 2006049437 (OCoLC)70267229 |
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| Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Julie Sze |
| OCLC Number: | 653372090 |
| Awards: | Winner of John Hope Franklin Publication Prize for the Best Book in American Studies 2008. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (x, 282 p.) : ill., map. |
| Details: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Series Title: | Urban and industrial environments. |
| Responsibility: | Julie Sze. |
| Contributing Library: | University of Michigan |
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"Noxious New York is a breath of fresh air in a world suffocating from pollution. Julie Sze has established herself as an authoritative voice on environmental justice movements. She uncovers two of the most ominous forces shaping all our lives today - and particularly the lives of the disenfranchised: the scourges of privatization and deregulation. Corporate power dominates our society from top to bottom, and the best hope for taking the planet back lies in the hands of activists like those featured in this outstanding book." --David Naguib Pellow, University of California, San Diego, author of Garbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago "Drawing deftly on scholarship in urban sociology, geography, and American studies, Julie Sze presents an astute and generative analysis of recent struggles for environmental justice in New York. At a time when neoliberalism and privatization increasingly impose new hazards and injuries on communities of color, Noxious New York reveals how activist groups have been able to develop an entirely new calculus of environmental risk and reward through the creation of a 'street science' that blends the expert knowledge of researchers with the experiences of community residents. This is a book that makes major contributions to our understanding of urban inequality, the environment, and contemporary culture." --George Lipsitz, University of California, Santa Barbara, author of American Studies in a Moment of Danger "This is an excellent analysis of environmental justice in New York City, notable for its in-depth scholarship and faithfulness to environmental-justice principles. It will be of wide interest across social-science disciplines and within the professions of public health and planning." --Tom Angotti, Professor of Urban Affairs and Planning, Hunter College Read more...
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- Environmental justice -- New York (State) -- New York.
- Public health -- New York (State) -- New York.
- Minorities -- Health aspects -- New York (State) -- New York.
- Urban Health -- New York.
- Environmental Health -- New York.
- Minority Health -- New York.
- Justice environnementale -- New York (État) -- New York.
- Santé urbaine -- New York (État) -- New York.
- Minorités -- Santé et hygiène -- New York (État) -- New York.
- Gesundheitswesen.
- Strukturschwaches Gebiet.
- Umweltpolitik.
- New York (N.Y.)
