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1 online resource (xxi, 242 pages) |
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Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; List of Acronyms and Abbreviations; 1. Down in Big Blue's Toxic Plume in Upstate New York; 2. The New Mitigation Landscape; 3. From Shoes to Computers to Vapor Mitigation Systems; 4. Living the Tangle of Risk, Deindustrialization, and Community Transformation; 5. Post-Mitigation Skepticism and Frustration; 6. Grassroots Action and Conflicted Environmental Justice; 7. Citizens, Experts, and Emerging Vapor Intrusion Science and Policy; 8. Accounting for the Paradox of IBM's "Smarter Planet"; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B |
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CD; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; About the Author |
| Summary |
In 1924, IBM built its first plant in Endicott, New York. Now, Endicott is a contested toxic waste site. With its landscape thoroughly contaminated by carcinogens, Endicott is the subject of one of the nation's largest corporate-state mitigation efforts. Yet despite the efforts of IBM and the U.S. government, Endicott residents remain skeptical that the mitigation systems employed were designed with their best interests at heart. In Toxic Town, Peter C. Little tracks and critically diagnoses the experiences of Endicott residents as they learn to live with high-tech pollution, community t |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-232) and index |
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English |
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Print version record |
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International Business Machines Corporation.
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International Business Machines Corporation fast |
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Hazardous waste sites -- New York (State) -- Endicott
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Hazardous waste site remediation -- New York (State) -- Endicott
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Computer industry -- Environmental aspects -- New York (State) -- Endicott
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Computer industry -- Waste disposal -- Environmental aspects -- New York (State) -- Endicott
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
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Computer industry -- Environmental aspects
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Ecology
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Hazardous waste site remediation
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Hazardous waste sites
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Endicott (N.Y.) -- Environmental conditions
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New York (State) -- Endicott
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780814764510 |
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0814764517 |
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