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Title Technoscience and environmental justice : expert cultures in a grassroots movement / edited by Gwen Ottinger and Benjamin Cohen ; afterword by Kim Fortun
Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 298 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Urban and industrial environments
Urban and industrial environments.
Contents Part I. Forging Environmentally Just Expertise: 1. Who Are the Experts of Environmental Health Justice? / Scott Frickel; 2. From Science-Based Legal Advocacy to Community Organizing: Opportunities and Obstacles to Transforming Patterns of Expertise and Access / Karen Hoffman; 3. Toxic Transformations: Constructing Online Audiences for Environmental Justice / Jason Delborne and Wyatt Galusky; 4. Experts, Ethics, and Environmental Justice: Communicating and Contesting Results from Personal Exposure Science / Rachel Morello-Frosch [and others]; 5. Middle-out Social Change: Expert-Led Development Interventions in Sri Lanka's Energy Sector / Dean Nieusma -- Part II. Extending Just Transformations of Expert Practice: 6. Invisible People, Invisible Risks: How Scientific Assessments of Environmental Health Risks Overlook Minorities--and How Community Participation Can Make Them Visible / Maria Powell and Jim Powell; 7. Risk Assessment and Native Americans at the Cultural Crossroads: Making Better Science or Redefining Health? / Jaclyn R. Johnson and Darren J. Ranco; 8. Uneven Transformations and Environmental Justice: Regulatory Science, Street Science, and Pesticide Regulation in California / Raoul S. Liévanos, Jonathan K. London and Julie Sze; 9. Rupturing Engineering Education: Opportunities for Transforming Expert Identities through Community-Based Projects / Gwen Ottinger -- Afterword: working "faultlines' / Kim Fortum
Summary This book argues that the environmental justice movement has also begun to transform science and engineering. The chapters present case studies of technical experts' encounters with environmental justice and activists and issues
Analysis ENVIRONMENT/General
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Technology -- Environmental aspects -- Case studies
Science -- Environmental aspects -- Case studies
Industries -- Environmental aspects -- Case studies
Environmental justice -- Case studies
Environmental health -- Case studies
Environmental policy -- Citizen participation -- Case studies
Environmental policy -- Decision making -- Case studies
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Environmental Policy.
SCIENCE -- Environmental Science.
Environmental health
Environmental justice
Environmental policy -- Citizen participation
Environmental policy -- Decision making
Industries -- Environmental aspects
Science -- Environmental aspects
Technology -- Environmental aspects
Genre/Form Case studies
Case studies.
Études de cas.
Form Electronic book
Author Ottinger, Gwen.
Cohen, Benjamin R.
LC no. 2010048351
ISBN 9780262298407
0262298406
1283258684
9781283258685