Cultures of contamination: legacies of pollution in Russia and the U.S.

Sustainability and the need to deal with the contaminated legacy: a comparison of Russia and the U.S. / Michael R. Edelstein -- pt. 1. The dynamics of a contaminated community. Section 1. Introduction. The Love Canal: social science research in a community in crisis / Adeline G. Levine -- Forging ch...

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Zusammenfassung:Sustainability and the need to deal with the contaminated legacy: a comparison of Russia and the U.S. / Michael R. Edelstein -- pt. 1. The dynamics of a contaminated community. Section 1. Introduction. The Love Canal: social science research in a community in crisis / Adeline G. Levine -- Forging change in a contaminated Russian city: a longitudinal view of Kirishi / Olga Tsepilova -- Sokol: seeing the forests for the trees / Antonina Kulyasova and Ivan Kulyosov -- The case of the Pinewood landfill: the politics of risk, rationality, and the disposal of hazardous waste / Nicholas D. Martyniak ... [et al.] -- Fear of cancer in a rural Appalachian community following notification of an environmental hazard / Janice L. Hastrup ... [et al.] -- Toxic water and the anthill effect: the development of a subculture of distress in a once contaminated community / Stephen R. Couch and Anne E. Mercuri -- pt. 2. Closed cities, secret accidents and social adaptations -- Section 2. Introduction. Closed city, open disaster / Nadezhda Kutepova and Olga Tsepilova -- The most contaminated place on earth: community response to long--term radiological disaster in Russia's southern urals / Natalia Mironova, Maria Tysiachniouk and Jonathan Reisman -- Psycho--social consequences due to radioactive contamination in the Techa River region of Russia / Michael R. Edelstein and Maria Tysiachniouk -- Environmental risk perception after Chernobyl / Irina A. Zykova -- Habitual risk taking in Dzerzhinsk: daily life in the capital of Soviet chemistry / Alla Bolotova -- Hanford: the closed city and its downwind victims / Michael R. Edelstein -- pt. 3. Mitigations. Section 3. Introduction. A grassroots perspective on the Brownfields and Superfund programs / Madelyn Hoffman -- Cleaning up from the Cold War: medical, ecological and psychological aspects of the Russian experience with chemical weapons destruction / Boris N. Filatov ... [et al.] -- Chernobyl: a liquidator's stody / Lyudmila V. Smirnova and Michael R. Edelstein -- Into thin air: training children to live in polluted environment / Oleg S. Glazachev -- Social remediation: contamination as an impetus for ecological learning / Lyudmila V. Smirnova -- pt.4. Perspectives. Section 4. Introduction. Coming clean after 9/11: the continuing World Trade Center disaster / Michael R. Edelstein and Catherine McVay Hughes -- Environmental altruism: a comparison of Russia and the United States / Margaret Gibbs ... [et al.] -- The parable of the Lions Bridge: potentials for mutual learning between cultures of contamination / Michael R. Edelstein and Lyudmila V. Smirnova
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