Industrial Disasters, Toxic Waste, and Community Impact focuses on hazardous and toxic wastes releases, industrial disasters, the consequent contamination of co

In the post-World War II period, modern societies have developed numerous heterogeneous synthetic organic compounds released into the environment and human habi

The sociology of hazardous waste, risk, and disasters is a relatively new discipline. This book focuses on hazardous and toxic wastes releases, industrial toxic

Covers reaction to Minamata disease; Centralia mine fire; Seveso; Bhopal; Iran-Iraq war: Chernobyl; Exxon Valdez oil spill.

In this wholly revised second edition, Michael Edelstein draws or iis thiffy years as a community activist tc provide a much-expanded theoretical foundation for