Contaminated Communities de Michael Edelstein

Contaminated Communities: Coping With Residential Toxic Exposure, Second Edition

Michael Edelstein

In this wholly revised second edition, Michael Edelstein draws on his thirty years as a community activist to provide a much-expanded theoretical foundation for understanding the psychosocial impacts of toxic contamination. Informed by social psychological theory and an extensive survey of documented cases of toxic exposure, and enlivened by excerp

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Cuprins

1 Toxic Exposure: The Plague of Our Time -- 2 Legler: The Story of a Contaminated Community -- 3 Lifescape Change: Cognitive Adjustment to Toxic Exposure -- 4 Individual and Family Impacts -- 5 Disabling Citizens: The Governmental Response to Toxic Exposure -- 6 The Enabling Response: Community Development and Toxic Exposure -- 7 The Societal Meaning of Pollution

Notă biografică

Michael R Edelstein is professor of Environmental Pyschology at Ramapo College of New Jersey, where until recently, he convened the Environmental Studies major. Since 1979, he has conducted a continuous program of research on the psycho-social impacts of environmental contamination. He is the co-author of Radon's Deadly Daughters, as well as co-editor of Radon and the Environment. Dr. Edelstein's research has also involved the impacts of environmental change on indigenous peoples and the practice of environmental impact assessment. In recent years, he has become involved in environmental exchanges with Russia, serving as a project director for two grants from the Trust for Mutual Understanding.

Descriere

This book presents a candid portrayal of the toxic victim's experience and the key stages in the course of toxic disaster. The second edition introduces dozens of new cases and provides expanded considerations of environmental justice, environmental racism, environmental turbulence, and environmental stigma, as well as a theory of "lifescape."