Resisting Global Toxics : Transnational Movements for Environmental Justice / David Naguib Pellow.

Examines the export of hazardous wastes to poor communities of color around the world and charts the global social movements that challenge them.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Pellow, David N., 1969- (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge MIT Press 2007.
Series:	Urban and industrial environments.
Subjects:	Environmental justice. Hazardous wastes > Developing countries. Environmental protection > International cooperation. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure. SOCIAL SCIENCE > General. Hazardous wastes. Earth & Environmental Sciences. Environmental Sciences. Developing countries.
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Table of Contents:

Environment, modernity, inequality
Race, class, environment, and resistance
Transnational movement networks for environmental justice
The global village dump: trashing the planet
Ghosts of the green revolution: pesticides poison the global South
Electronic waste: the "clean industry" exports its trash
Theorizing global environmental inequality and global social movements for human rights and environmental justice
Appendix: Principles of environmental justice.

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