Narrow your search
Listing 1 - 6 of 6
Sort by
Contaminated communities : coping with residential toxic exposure
Author:
ISBN: 0813336473 Year: 2004 Publisher: Boulder (Colo.) : Westview press,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

Contaminated communities : coping with residential toxic exposure
Author:
ISBN: 9780813341484 9780813336473 Year: 2018 Publisher: New York, N.Y. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract


Book
Disaster by design
Authors: --- ---
ISBN: 1283936542 178190376X 1781903751 9781781903766 Year: 2012 Publisher: Bingley, U.K. Emerald

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

Disaster by Design: The Aral Sea, Lessons for Sustainability addresses the impacts of the Aral Sea disaster. The virtual disappearance of what was the world's fourth largest inland body of water was neither natural nor accidental. It was the result of deliberate policy decisions. The sea's disappearance is hardly the entire disaster. Instead, we find an accumulation of cascading effects, beginning with the decision to grow cotton, reached remotely in Moscow, that altered the farming practices surrounding the Aral Sea. Unsustainable choices resulted in soil salinization, water pollution and toxic blowing sands, impacting the entire bioregion and beyond. A remote island was used to test biological weapons. Uzbekistan, most notably Karakalpakstan, was the autonomous republic at the epicenter of the disaster. Sustainable prospects exist, including renewable energy, permaculture and strengthening the social fabric amidst poverty and ecological collapse. This volume of Research in Social Problems and Public Policy is essential reading for everyone concerned with averting environmental disaster and instead creating livable, sustainable communities. Disaster by Design is a clarion call and an insightful study of Central Asia today.

Radon's deadly daughters : science, environmental policy, and the politics of risk
Authors: ---
ISBN: 0847683338 0847683346 Year: 1998 Publisher: Lanham (Md.) : Rowman and Littlefield,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

Radon and the environment : proceedings of a conference by Institute for environmental studies at Ramapo College of New Jersey on May 8, 9, and 10, 1986
Authors: ---
ISBN: 0815511612 Year: 1988 Publisher: Park Ridge Noyes Publications

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

Cultures of contamination
Authors: --- ---
ISBN: 9781849504607 1849504601 0762313714 9786611003982 1281003980 0080475485 9780080475486 9780762313716 9781281003980 6611003983 Year: 2007 Publisher: Amsterdam Oxford Elsevier JAI

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

This volume ponders the cultures that generated the bulk of our global contamination legacy. Insight is sought into its creation and an understanding of differences in how it is being addressed. Hopefully the illumination of the problem will contribute to a better understanding of the constraining conditions and will help guide us in meeting the twin challenges created by the legacy of contamination: how to stop it and how to address what we already have done. Section one focuses on the psycho-social dynamics of chemical contamination. Section two deals with nuclear events, both accidents, but also the closed cities and closed society needed to produce a nuclear context. Section 3 addresses mitigations, dominated by 4 out of 5 chapters addressing Russia. And section four provides perspectives, comparative pieces addressing secrecy in nuclear programs, distorted risk communication in the aftermath of the World Trade Center Disaster, environmental altruism and in core social response to environmental challenges. It examines the cultures most responsible for global contamination. It adopts a global and practical perspective, with case examples from the United States and Russia. It seeks to stop contaminations from taking place in the future and positively address those from the past. This book series is available electronically at website.

Listing 1 - 6 of 6
Sort by