NSP 271: Environmental Justice
This course will explore how social, industrial, and governmental forces have created disproportionate environmental burdens for people of color and the poor in the United States. It will investigate the role of science in understanding these inequalities
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Selected Books & eBooks
Just a selection of print and online books that focus on environmental issues, as they relate to societal inequities. Use books as a starting point, to help generate ideas regarding your chosen topic. And be sure to browse the shelves or online to find other related books.
Animal Factory by Call Number: TD195 .A34 K57 2010ISBN: 9780312380588Publication Date: 2010-03-02Swine flu. Bird flu. Unusual concentrations of cancer and other diseases. Massive fish kills from flesh-eating parasites. Recalls of meats, vegetables, and fruits because of deadly E-coli bacterial contamination. Recent public health crises raise urgent questions about how our animal-derived food is raised and brought to market.
Fire Underground by Call Number: TN315 .D448 2010ISBN: 9780762754274Publication Date: 2009-10-01How a modern-day mine disaster has turned a Pennsylvania community into a ghost town.
Flint Fights Back by Call Number: GE235.M53 P38 2019ISBN: 9780262536868Publication Date: 2019-05-07An account of the Flint water crisis shows that Flint's struggle for safe and affordable water is part of a broader struggle for democracy.
Fractured Communities by ISBN: 9780813587691Publication Date: 2018-03-23While environmental disputes and conflicts over fossil fuel extraction have grown in recent years, few issues have been as contentious in the twenty-first century as those surrounding the impacts of unconventional natural gas and oil development using hydraulic drilling and fracturing techniques--more commonly known as "fracking"--on local communities.
The Great Deluge by Call Number: HV636 2005.L8 B75 2006ISBN: 9780061124235Publication Date: 2006-05-09An account of Hurricane Katrina and the devastation it left in New Orleans and across the Gulf Coast documents the events and repercussions of the tragedy and its aftermath and the ongoing crisis confronting the region.
Hurricane Katrina by ISBN: 9780803224636Publication Date: 2009-04-01On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast states of Louisiana and Mississippi. The storm devastated the region and its citizens. But its devastation did not reach across racial and class lines equally.
Love Canal Revisited by Call Number: GE235 .N7 B58 2008ISBN: 9780700615605Publication Date: 2008-03-19Thirty years after the headlines, Love Canal remains synonymous with toxic waste. When this neighborhood of Niagara Falls, New York, burst upon the nation's consciousness, the media focused on a working-class white woman named Lois Gibbs, who gained prominence as an activist fighting to save families from the poison buried beneath their homes.
Oil in the Environment by Call Number: TD196 .P4 O386 2013ISBN: 9781107027176Publication Date: 2013-07-18What light does nearly twenty-five years of scientific study of the Exxon Valdez oil spill shed on the fate and effects of a spill? How can the results help in assessing future spills? How can ecological risks be assessed and quantified?
Toxic Airs by ISBN: 9780822979524Publication Date: 2014-03-23Toxic Airs brings together historians of medicine, environmental historians, historians of science and technology, and interdisciplinary scholars to address atmospheric issues on a spectrum of scales from body to place to planet.
Trashing the Planet by ISBN: 9781512448665Publication Date: 2017-08-01On a global scale, humans create around 2.6 trillion pounds of waste every year. None of this trash is harmless--landfills and dumps leak toxic chemicals into soil and groundwater, while incinerators release toxic gases and particles into the air. What can we do to keep garbage from swallowing up Earth?
Turning the Tide by ISBN: 9781559635493Publication Date: 2003-07-15A unique and accessible examination of the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem. The book took an in-depth look at the Bay's vital signs to gauge the overall health of its entire ecosystem and to assess what had been done and what remained to be done to clean up the Bay.
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