Title Cultures of contamination : legacies of pollution in Russia and the U.S. / edited by Michael R. Edelstein, Maria Tysiachniouk and Lyudmila V. Smirnova.

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Amsterdam ; Oxford : Elsevier JAI, 2007.

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Description	1 online resource (1 volume).
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	Research in social problems and public policy ; v. 14
	Research in social problems and public policy ; v. 14.
Contents	Cover; Copyright page; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Contributors; US and Russian Map; Sustainability and the Need to Deal With the Contaminated Legacy: A Comparison of Russia and the U.S.; Introduction: Sustainability and the Legacy of Contamination; A Short Eco-Historical Analysis; The Project; This Volume; Notes; References; Part 1: The Dynamics of a Contaminated Community; Section 1: Introduction; The Love Canal: Social Science Research in a Community in Crisis; Forging Change in a Contaminated Russian City: A Longitudinal View of Kirishi; Sokol: Seeing the Forests for the Trees.
Summary	This volume ponders the cultures that generated the bulk of our global contamination legacy. Insight is sought into its creation and an understanding of differences in how it is being addressed. Hopefully the illumination of the problem will contribute to a better understanding of the constraining conditions and will help guide us in meeting the twin challenges created by the legacy of contamination: how to stop it and how to address what we already have done. Section one focuses on the psycho-social dynamics of chemical contamination. Section two deals with nuclear events, both accidents, but.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references.
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Subject	Pollution -- Social aspects -- Russia (Federation)
	Pollution -- Social aspects.
	Russia (Federation)
	Pollution.
	Environmental degradation -- Social aspects -- Russia (Federation)
	Environmental degradation -- Social aspects.
	Environmental degradation.
	Radioactive pollution -- Russia (Federation)
	Radioactive pollution.
	Environmental health -- Russia (Federation)
	Environmental health.
	Environmental degradation -- Psychological aspects.
	Psychological aspects.
	Pollution -- Social aspects -- United States.
	United States.
	Environmental degradation -- Social aspects -- United States.
	Environmental health -- United States.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Added Author	Edelstein, Michael R.
	Tysiachniouk, Maria.
	Smirnova, Lyudmila V.
Other Form:	Print version: Cultures of contamination. Amsterdam ; Oxford : Elsevier JAI, 2007 9780762313716 0762313714 (OCoLC)77257203
ISBN	9780080475486 (electronic book)
	0080475485 (electronic book)
	9781849504607 (electronic book)
	1849504601 (electronic book)
	0762313714 (Cloth)
	9780762313716 (hardback)

Title Cultures of contamination : legacies of pollution in Russia and the U.S. / edited by Michael R. Edelstein, Maria Tysiachniouk and Lyudmila V. Smirnova.

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