Technoscience and environmental justice: expert cultures in a grassroots movement
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press c2011
Series:Urban and industrial environments
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Part I. - Forging Environmentally Just Expertise - 1 - Who Are the Experts of Environmental Health Justice? - Scott Frickel - 2 - From Science-Based Legal Advocacy to Community Organizing: Opportunities and Obstacles to Transforming Patterns of Expertise and Access - Karen Hoffman - 3 - Toxic Transformations: Constructing Online Audiences for Environmental Justice - Jason Delborne and Wyatt Galusky - 4 - Experts, Ethics, and Environmental Justice: Communicating and Contesting Results from Personal Exposure Science - Rachel Morello-Frosch ... [et al.] - 5 - Middle-out Social Change: Expert-Led Development Interventions in Sri Lanka's Energy Sector - Dean Nieusma -- - Part II. - Extending Just Transformations of Expert Practice - 6 - Invisible People, Invisible Risks: How Scientific Assessments of Environmental Health Risks Overlook Minorities--and How Community Participation Can Make Them Visible - Maria Powell and Jim Powell - 7 - Risk Assessment and Native Americans at the Cultural Crossroads: Making Better Science or Redefining Health? - Jaclyn R. Johnson and Darren J. Ranco - 8 - Uneven Transformations and Environmental Justice: Regulatory Science, Street Science, and Pesticide Regulation in California - Raoul S. Liévanos, Jonathan K. London and Julie Sze - 9 - Rupturing Engineering Education: Opportunities for Transforming Expert Identities through Community-Based Projects - Gwen Ottinger -- - Afterword: working "faultlines' - Kim Fortum
This book argues that the environmental justice movement has also begun to transform science and engineering. The chapters present case studies of technical experts' encounters with environmental justice and activists and issues
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (viii, 298 p.)
ISBN:0262298406
9780262298407

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