Resisting Global Toxics: Transnational Movements for Environmental Justice

by David Naguib Pellow

Book Overview

Examines the export of hazardous wastes to poor communities of color around the world and charts the global social movements that challenge them.

Every year, nations and corporations in the "global North" produce millions of tons of toxic waste. Too often this hazardous material--inked to high rates of illness and death and widespread ecosystem damage--is exported to poor communities of color around the world. In Resisting Global Toxics,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262662019
• ISBN13: 9780262662017
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 358 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.6" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher