Noxious New York: The Racial Politics of Urban Health and Environmental Justice (Urban and Industrial Environments)

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Release: 2006-11-22
Publisher: The MIT Press
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 0262195542
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

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Racial minority and low-income communities often suffer disproportionate effects of urban environmental problems. Environmental justice advocates argue that these communities are on the front lines of environmental and health risks. In Noxious New York, Julie Sze analyzes the culture, politics, and history of environmental justice activism in New York City within the larger context of privatization, deregulation, and globalization. She tracks urban planning and environmental health activism in four gritty New York neighborhoods: Brooklyn's Sunset Park and Williamsburg sections, West Harlem, and the South Bronx. In these communities, activism flourished in the 1980s and 1990s in response to economic decay and a concentration of noxious incinerators, solid waste transfer stations, and power plants. Sze describes the emergence of l Download Noxious New York for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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