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Author Sicotte, Diane, 1960- author.

Title From workshop to waste magnet : environmental inequality in the Philadelphia region / Diane Sicotte.

Publication Info. New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, 2016.

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Description 1 online resource.
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Series Nature, society, and culture
Nature, society, and culture.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Measuring environmental inequalities in the Philadelphia area in 2010 -- Theorizing urban environmental inequality -- The rise of industrial Philadelphia -- Environmental inequality from 1950 to 1969 -- From workshop to waste magnet : environmental burdening after 1970 -- Intersectionality and environmental inequality in the Philadelphia region -- Toward a "rustbelt" theory of U.S. environmental inequality.
Summary From Workshop to Waste Magnet presents Philadelphia's environmental history as a bracing case study in mismanagement and injustice. Tracing the complex interactions among economic decline, federal regulations, local politics, and shifting ethnic demographics, sociologist Diane Sicotte uncovers how only a few communities came to host many types of polluting or waste disposal land uses. What she finds reveals the devastation that occurs when mass quantities of society's wastes mix with toxic levels of systemic racism and inequality.
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Subject Environmental justice -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia Region.
Environmental justice.
Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia Region.
Environmental degradation -- Social aspects -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia Region.
Environmental degradation -- Social aspects.
Environmental degradation.
Environmental health -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia Region.
Environmental health.
Minorities -- Health and hygiene -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia Region.
Minorities -- Health and hygiene.
Hazardous waste sites -- Environmental aspects -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia Region.
Hazardous waste sites -- Environmental aspects.
Hazardous waste sites.
Philadelphia Region (Pa.) -- Environmental conditions.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: 9780813574202 081357420X (DLC) 2015047303 (OCoLC)940790458
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