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Sacrifice Zones : The Front Lines of Toxic Chemical Exposure in the United States by M. Robert and Steve Lerner (2010, Hardcover)

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Sacrifice Zones: The Front Lines of Toxic Chemical Exposure in the United States

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Product Identifiers

PublisherMIT Press

ISBN-100262014408

ISBN-139780262014403

eBay Product ID (ePID)84462749

Product Key Features

Number of Pages368 Pages

Publication NameSacrifice Zones : the Front Lines of Toxic Chemical Exposure in the United States

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2010

SubjectEnvironmental Science (See Also Chemistry / Environmental), Political Economy, Environmental / General

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaPolitical Science, Technology & Engineering, Science

AuthorM. Robert, Steve Lerner

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight22 Oz

Item Length9.1 in

Item Width6.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2009-051289

Reviews"The thoroughness of Lerner's research into effective strategies for fighting pollution should prove invaluable for those who struggle for environmental justice. This book offers an inside view of a new form of activism, one that promises to fuse struggles for ecological protection, economic and social justice, and human health into a more transformative environmental politics." - American Scientist, "A significant complement to three decades of environmental justice research; it provides irrefutable empirical evidence that not all American communities are created equal." Robert D. Bullard Environmental Health Perspectives

Dewey Edition22

Grade FromCollege Graduate Student

Dewey Decimal363.738/420973

Synopsis"I just got mad. I couldn't breathe in my own house." -Ruth Reed, a resident of Ocala, Florida, who lives next door to a Royal Oak Charcoal factory Across the United States, thousands of people, most of them in low-income or minority communities, live next to heavily polluting industrial sites. Many of them, like Ruth Reed, reach a point at which they say "Enough is enough." After living for years with poisoned air and water, contaminated soil, and pollution-related health problems, they start to take action-organizing, speaking up, documenting the effects of pollution on their neighborhoods. In Sacrifice Zones, Steve Lerner tells the stories of twelve communities, from Brooklyn to Pensacola, that rose up to fight the industries and military bases causing disproportionately high levels of chemical pollution. He calls these low-income neighborhoods "sacrifice zones"-repurposing a Cold War term coined by U.S. government officials to designate areas contaminated with radioactive pollutants during the manufacture of nuclear weapons. And he argues that residents of a new generation of sacrifice zones, tainted with chemical pollutants, need additional regulatory protections. Studies show that poor and minority neighborhoods are more polluted than wealthier areas located farther away from heavy industry. Sacrifice Zonesgoes beyond these disheartening statistics and gives us the voices of the residents themselves. We hear from people like Margaret L. Williams, who organized her neighbors to demand relocation away from two Superfund hazardous waste sites; Hilton Kelley, who came back to his hometown to find intensified emissions from the Exxon Mobil refinery next to the housing project in which he grew up; and Laura Ward, who found technicians drilling a hole in her backyard to test groundwater for pollution from the nearby Lockheed Martin weapons plant. Sacrifice Zonesoffers compelling portraits of accidental activists who have become grassroots leaders in the struggle for environmental justice and details the successful tactics they have used on the fence line with heavy industry., The stories of residents of low-income communities across the country who took action when pollution from heavy industry contaminated their towns.

LC Classification NumberRA1226.L47 2010