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Author Sicotte, Diane, 1960- author.

Title From workshop to waste magnet : environmental inequality in the Philadelphia region / Diane Sicotte
Published New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, 2016

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Description 1 online resource
Series Nature, society, and culture
Nature, society, and culture.
Contents Measuring environmental inequalities in the Philadelphia area in 2010 -- Theorizing urban environmental inequality -- The rise of industrial Philadelphia -- Environmental inequality from 1950 to 1969 -- From workshop to waste magnet : environmental burdening after 1970 -- Intersectionality and environmental inequality in the Philadelphia region -- Toward a "rustbelt" theory of U.S. environmental inequality
Summary From Workshop to Waste Magnet presents Philadelphia's environmental history as a bracing case study in mismanagement and injustice. Tracing the complex interactions among economic decline, federal regulations, local politics, and shifting ethnic demographics, sociologist Diane Sicotte uncovers how only a few communities came to host many types of polluting or waste disposal land uses. What she finds reveals the devastation that occurs when mass quantities of society's wastes mix with toxic levels of systemic racism and inequality
Analysis environment, EPA, protest, energy, sustainable energy, hydraulic, climate change, conservatism, waste, waste management, philly, philadelphia, pennsylvania, city of brotherly love, factory, factory workers, workshop, sweatshop
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Environmental justice -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia Region
Environmental degradation -- Social aspects -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia Region
Environmental health -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia Region
Minorities -- Health and hygiene -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia Region
Hazardous waste sites -- Environmental aspects -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia Region
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
SCIENCE -- Chemistry -- Environmental.
Ecology
Environmental degradation -- Social aspects
Environmental health
Environmental justice
Hazardous waste sites -- Environmental aspects
Minorities -- Health and hygiene
SUBJECT Philadelphia Region (Pa.) -- Environmental conditions
Subject Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia Region
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780813574219
0813574218
9780813574226
0813574226