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Reclaiming the environmental debate : the politics of health in a toxic culture
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Reclaiming the environmental debate : the politics of health in a toxic culture

Author: Richard Hofrichter
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2000.
Series: Urban and industrial environments.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Richard Hofrichter
ISBN: 0262082845 9780262082846 0262581825 9780262581820 9780262581844 0262581841
OCLC Number: 42296574
Description: vi, 356 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Introduction: critical perspectives on human health and the environment / Richard Hofrichter --
The social production of cancer: a walk upstream / Sandra Steingraber --
Deconstructing standards, reconstructing worker health / Charles Levenstein and John Wooding --
Brownfields and the redevelopment of communities: linking health, economy, and justice / William Shutkin and Rafael Mares --
Place matters / Mindy Thompson Fullilove and Robert E. Fullilove III --
Akwesasne: a Native American community's resistance to cultural and environmental damage / Alice Tarbell and Mary Arquette --
When harm is not necessary: risk assessment as diversion / Mary H. O'Brien --
The ecological tyranny of the bottom line: the environmental and social consequences of economic reductionism / John Bellamy Foster --
Silencing spring: corporate propaganda and the takeover of the environmental movement / Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber --
The globalization of corporate culture and its role in the environmental crisis / Joshua Karliner --
Selling "Mother Earth": advertising and the myth of the natural / Robin Andersen --
Green living in a toxic world: the pitfalls and promises of everyday environmentalism / Marcy Darnovsky --
Rethinking technoscience in risk society: toxicity as textuality / Timothy W. Luke --
Silencing the voice of the people: how mining companies subvert local opposition / Al Gedicks --
Bearing witness or taking action?: toxic tourism and environmental justice / Giovanna Di Chiro --
For generations yet to come: Junebug Productions' environmental justice project / John O'Neal --
Media art and activism: a model for collective action / Branda Miller.
Series Title: Urban and industrial environments.
Responsibility: edited by Richard Hofrichter.

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