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Author Pellow, David N., 1969- author.

Title Resisting Global Toxics : Transnational Movements for Environmental Justice / David Naguib Pellow
Published Cambridge MIT Press 2007

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Description 1 online resource (359)
Series Urban and industrial environments
Urban and industrial environments.
Contents Environment, modernity, inequality -- Race, class, environment, and resistance -- Transnational movement networks for environmental justice -- The global village dump: trashing the planet -- Ghosts of the green revolution: pesticides poison the global South -- Electronic waste: the "clean industry" exports its trash -- Theorizing global environmental inequality and global social movements for human rights and environmental justice -- Appendix: Principles of environmental justice
Summary Examines the export of hazardous wastes to poor communities of color around the world and charts the global social movements that challenge them
Analysis ENVIRONMENT/Environmental Politics & Policy
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-324) and index
Notes English
Subject Environmental justice.
Hazardous wastes -- Developing countries
Environmental protection -- International cooperation.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Environmental justice.
Environmental protection -- International cooperation.
Hazardous wastes.
Earth & Environmental Sciences.
Environmental Sciences.
Developing countries.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2006035516
ISBN 9780262281362
0262281368
1282100475
9781282100473
9786612100475
6612100478