Faces of Environmental Racism: Confronting Issues of Global Justice
Laura Westra and Bill Lawson’s edited collection centers on the legal, political, economic, social, and health issues surrounding environmental racism.
Laura Westra and Bill Lawson’s edited collection centers on the legal, political, economic, social, and health issues surrounding environmental racism.
Thorough compilation, exhaustive research, and precise chronology are the hallmarks of this work on the Hanford Site Historic District, a plutonium production facility that operated from 1943 to 1990.
In Hanford: A Conversation About Nuclear Waste and Cleanup, Roy Gephart takes us on a journey through a world of facts, values, conflicts, and choices facing the most complex environmental cleanup project in the United States, the US Department of Energy’s Hanford Site.
This book is the first comprehensive account of the causes, context, and consequences of the the worst accident in the history of commercial nuclear power in the United States, which occurred at Three Mile Island.
On the use, abuse, and regulation of pesticides from World War II until 1970.
Leading health scholars reveal the impact of globalization on human health, as it is mediated through environmental change.
An original history of “ecological” ideas of the body as it unfolded in California’s Central Valley.
In The River Runs Black, Elizabeth C. Economy examines China’s growing environmental crisis and its implications for the country’s future development.
State of the World 2012: Moving Toward Sustainable Prosperity showcases creative policies and fresh approaches that are advancing sustainable development in the twenty-first century.
The Population Bomb criticizes overpopulation and advocates instant action to limit population growth. The author justifies his arguments with huge starvation threats and other trouble spots.