Title Noxious New York : the racial politics of urban health and environmental justice / Julie Sze

Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (x, 282 pages) : illustrations, map Series Urban and industrial environments Urban and industrial environments. Contents Machine generated contents note: Introduction : environmental justice in a moment of danger -- 1. What's old is new : public health and planning as historical antecedents to New York City's environmental justice activism -- 2. New York City environmental justice campaigns : stigma, blight, and the politics of race and pollution -- 3. Childhood asthma in New York City : the politics of gender, race, and recognition -- 4. racial geography of New York City garbage : local and global trash politics -- 5. Power to the people? : deregulation and environmental justice energy activism -- 6. promise and the peril or, can community-based environmental justice initiatives reintegrate planning and public health in the urban environment? Summary 'Noxious New York' examines the culture, politics, and history of the movement for environmental justice in New York City, tracking activism in four neighborhoods on issues of public health, garbage, and energy systems in the context of privatisation, deregulation, and globalisation Analysis ENVIRONMENT/Environmental Politics & Policy ENVIRONMENT/General Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-268) and index Notes 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. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Environmental justice -- New York (State) -- New York Urban health -- New York (State) -- New York Minorities -- Health aspects -- New York (State) -- New York Urban health. Environmental health. Minorities -- Health and hygiene -- New York (State) -- New York Urban Health Environmental Health Minority Health MEDICAL -- Health Risk Assessment. MEDICAL -- Epidemiology. Minorities -- Health and hygiene Environmental health Environmental justice Urban health Gesundheitswesen Strukturschwaches Gebiet Umweltpolitik Folkhälsa -- Miljöaspekter -- Förenta staterna -- New York. Rasism -- Miljöaspekter -- Förenta staterna -- New York. Minoritetsgrupper -- Miljöaspekt -- Förenta staterna -- New York. Hälsa -- Miljöaspekter -- Förenta staterna -- New York. Aktivism -- Milöaspekter -- Förenta staterna -- New York. Miljöpolitik -- Miljöaspekter -- Förenta staterna -- New York. SUBJECT New York Subject New York (State) -- New York New York (N.Y.) Form Electronic book ISBN 9780262284646 0262284642 9780262264792 026226479X 9781429455350 1429455357 9786612100390 6612100397

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