Like many industrialized regions, the Philadelphia metro area contains pockets of environmental degradation. However, other neighbourhoods within and around the city are relatively pristine. This eye-opening book reveals that such environmental inequalities did not occur by chance, but were instead the result of specific policy decisions that served to exacerbate endemic classism and racism.
Like many industrialized regions, the Philadelphia metro area contains pockets of environmental degradation. However, other neighbourhoods within and around the city are relatively pristine. This eye-opening book reveals that such environmental inequalities did not occur by chance, but were instead the result of specific policy decisions that served to exacerbate endemic classism and racism.
DIANE SICOTTE is an associate professor of sociology at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she teaches courses on environmental justice.
Inhaltsangabe
Contents
List of Figures List of Maps List of Tables
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Measuring Environmental Inequalities in the Philadelphia Area in 2010 2 Theorizing Urban Environmental Inequality 3 The Rise of Industrial Philadelphia 4 Environmental Inequality from 1950 to 1969 5 From Workshop to Waste Magnet: Environmental Burdening After 1970 6 Intersectionality and Environmental Inequality in the Philadelphia Region 7 Toward a “Rustbelt” Theory of U.S. Environmental Inequality
1 Measuring Environmental Inequalities in the Philadelphia Area in 2010 2 Theorizing Urban Environmental Inequality 3 The Rise of Industrial Philadelphia 4 Environmental Inequality from 1950 to 1969 5 From Workshop to Waste Magnet: Environmental Burdening After 1970 6 Intersectionality and Environmental Inequality in the Philadelphia Region 7 Toward a “Rustbelt” Theory of U.S. Environmental Inequality
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