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Technoscience and environmental justice : expert cultures in a grassroots movement / edited by Gwen Ottinger and Benjamin Cohen ; afterword by Kim Fortun.

Contributor(s): Series: Urban and industrial environmentsPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2011.Description: viii, 298 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780262015790 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 026201579X (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 9780262516181 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0262516187 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 363.7 22
LOC classification:
  • TD194 .T43 2011
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. LieÌvanos, 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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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. LieÌvanos, 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.

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