2nd Edition

Contaminated Communities Coping With Residential Toxic Exposure, Second Edition

By Michael R Edelstein Copyright 2004
366 Pages
by Routledge

368 Pages
by Routledge

352 Pages
by Routledge

In this wholly revised second edition, Michael Edelstein draws or iis thiffy years as a community activist tc provide a much-expanded theoretical foundation for understanding the psychosocial impacts of toxic contaminagtion. Informed by social psychological theory and an extensive survey of documented cases of toxic exposure, and enlivened by excerpts drawn from more than one thousand Interviews... Read more
Foreword To The First Edition -- Preface To 2004 Edition -- Toxic Exposure: The Plague of Our Time -- Legler: The Story of a Contaminated Community -- Lifescape Change: Cognitive Adjustment to Toxic Exposure -- Individual and Family Impacts -- Disabling Citizens: The Governmental Response to Toxic Exposure -- The Enabling Response: Community Development and Toxic Exposure -- The Societal Meaning of Pollution

Biography

Edelstein, Michael R