From Workshop to Waste Magnet : : Environmental Inequality in the Philadelphia Region / / Diane Sicotte.
Like many industrialized regions, the Philadelphia metro area contains pockets of environmental degradation: neighborhoods littered with abandoned waste sites, polluting factories, and smoke-belching incinerators. However, other neighborhoods within and around the city are relatively pristine. This...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Nature, Society, and Culture
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) :; 2 photographs, 18 maps, 2 figures, 25 tables |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Measuring Environmental Inequalities in the Philadelphia Area in 2010
- 2. Theorizing Urban Environmental Inequality
- 3. The Rise of Industrial Philadelphia
- 4. Environmental Inequality from 1950 to 1969
- 5. The Making of Waste Magnets: Environmental Burdening after 1970
- 6. Intersectionality and Environmental Inequality in the Philadelphia Region
- 7. Toward a “Rust Belt” Theory of U.S. Environmental Inequality
- Appendix
- Notes
- Index