Technoscience and environmental justice expert cultures in a grassroots movement / edited by Gwen Ottinger and Benjamin Cohen ; afterword by Kim Fortun.
| Other author | Ottinger, Gwen. |
| Other author | Cohen, Benjamin R. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, |
| Description | viii, 298 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from UPCC Books Political Science and Policy Studies 2011 Subject Collection |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from MIT Press Direct to Open Backfile HSS Monographs |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from UPCC Books 2011 Political Science and Policy Studies Collection Supplement |
| Subjects |
| Series | Urban and industrial environments |
| Contents | Introduction : Environmental justice and the transformation of science and engineering / Benjamin Cohen and Gwen Ottinger -- Who are the experts of environmental health justice? / Scott Frickel -- From science-based legal advocacy to community organizing : opportunties and obstacles to transforming patterns of expertise and access / Karen Hoffman -- Toxic transformations : constructing online audiences for environmental justice / Jason Delborne and Wyatt Galusky -- Experts, ethics, and environmental justice : communiciating and contesting results from personal exposure science / Rachel Morello-Frosch ... [et al.] -- Middle-out social change : expert-led development interventions in Sri Lanka's energy sector / Dean Nieusma -- 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 -- Risk assessment and native Americans at the cultural crossroads : making better science or redefining health? / Jaclyn R. Johnson and Darren J. Ranco -- Uneven transformations and environmental justice : regulatory science, street science, and pesticide regulation in California / Raoul S. Liévanos, Jonathan K. London, and Julie Sze -- Rupturing engineering education : opportunities for transforming expert identities through community-based projects / Gwen Ottinger -- Afterword : Working "faultlines" / Kim Fortun. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2010048351 |
| ISBN | 9780262015790 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 026201579X (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780262516181 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0262516187 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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| Electronic Resources | ✔ Available |