Toxic Town : : IBM, Pollution, and Industrial Risks /

Toxic Town : : IBM, Pollution, and Industrial Risks / / Peter C. Little.

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Shows the risks of high-tech pollution through a study of an IBM plant's effects on a New York townIn 1924, IBM built its first plant in Endicott, New York. Now, Endicott is a contested toxic waste site. With its landscape thoroughly contaminated by carcinogens, Endicott is the subject of one o...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Little, Peter C.,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures and Tables
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Acronyms and Abbreviations
  • 1. Down in Big Blue’s Toxic Plume in Upstate New York
  • 2. The New Mitigation Landscape
  • 3. From Shoes to Computers to Vapor Mitigation Systems
  • 4. Living the Tangle of Risk, Deindustrialization, and Community Transformation
  • 5. Post-Mitigation Skepticism and Frustration
  • 6. Grassroots Action and Conflicted Environmental Justice
  • 7. Citizens, Experts, and Emerging Vapor Intrusion Science and Policy
  • 8. Accounting for the Paradox of IBM’s “Smarter Planet”
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author

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