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

• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Edelstein, Michael R., Tysiachniouk, Maria, Smirnova, Lyudmila V.
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Amsterdam ; Oxford : Elsevier JAI, 2007.
• Σειρά: Research in social problems and public policy ; v. 14.
• Θέματα: Pollution > Social aspects > Russia (Federation); Environmental degradation > Social aspects > Russia (Federation); Radioactive pollution > Russia (Federation); Environmental health > Russia (Federation); Environmental degradation > Psychological aspects.; Pollution > Social aspects > United States.; Environmental degradation > Social aspects > United States.; Environmental health > United States.; Waste management.; Pollution & threats to the environment.; Technology & Engineering > Environmental > Waste Management.

This volume ponders the cultures that generated the bulk of our global contamination legacy. Insight is sought into its creation and an understanding of differences in how it is being addressed. Hopefully the illumination of the problem will contribute to a better understanding of the constraining c...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.