Noxious New York : the racial politics of urban health and environmental justice

Author/Creator:

Sze, Julie

Publication/Creation:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2007

Resource Type:

Book

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Additional/Related Title Information

Full Title:

Noxious New York : the racial politics of urban health and environmental justice / Julie Sze

Series Titles:

Urban and industrial environments
Urban and Industrial Environments

Related/Included Titles:

Introduction: envirnomental justice in a moment of danger --
What's old is new: public health and planning as historical antecedents to New York City's environmental justice activism --
New York City environmental justice campaigns: stigma, blight, and the politics of race and pollution --
Childhood asthma in New York City: the politics of gender, race, and recognition --
The racial geography of New York City garbage: local and global trash politics --
Power to the people? Deregulation and environmental justice energy activism --
The promise and the peril or, can community-based environmental justice initiatives reintegrate planning and public health in the urban environment? --
Conclusion: what we can learn from New York City environmentalism justice activism.

Subjects/Genre

Subjects:

Environmental justice--New York (State)--New York
Urban health--New York (State)--New York
Minorities--Health aspects--New York (State)--New York

Description/Summary

Table of Contents:

Introduction: envirnomental justice in a moment of danger -- What's old is new: public health and planning as historical antecedents to New York City's environmental justice activism -- New York City environmental justice campaigns: stigma, blight, and the politics of race and pollution -- Childhood asthma in New York City: the politics of gender, race, and recognition -- The racial geography of New York City garbage: local and global trash politics -- Power to the people? Deregulation and environmental justice energy activism -- The promise and the peril or, can community-based environmental justice initiatives reintegrate planning and public health in the urban environment? -- Conclusion: what we can learn from New York City environmentalism justice activism.

Summary:

'Noxious New York' examines the culture, politics, and history of the movement for environmental justice in New York City, tracking activism in four neighborhoods on issues of public health, garbage, and energy systems in the context of privatisation, deregulation, and globalisation.

Language:

English

Language Note:

English

Physical Type/Description:

1 online resource (x, 282 p. ) ill., map

General Note:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

9936951132702486

ISBN:

0-262-26479-X
1-282-10039-4
9786612100390
0-262-28464-2
1-4294-5535-7

OCLC Number:

82473854
1024237005