LibGuides: Environmental Justice: Pollution

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In this box you will see examples of some of the kinds of searches you can do in the DUQSearch online catalog or a database on the "Additional Research Tools" page.

Air Pollution
Water Pollution
Drinking Water--Contamination
Ground Water--Pollution
Hazardous Waste Sites
Urban Pollution
Hydraulic Fracturing
Bacterial Pollution of Water
Drugs--Environmental Aspects
Plastic Marine Debris
Refuse and Refuse Disposal
Marine Pollution
Bacterial Pollution of Water
Nutrient Pollution of Water
Specific polluting activities such as mining, agriculture, etc.
Specific pollutants such as methane, pesticides, mercury, etc.

Selected Books on Pollution and Environmental Justice

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Polluted Promises: Environmental Racism and the Search for Justice in a Southern Town by Melissa Checker
Publication Date: 2005
One community's fight against industrial contamination and environmental racism.

Ebook. Click title to read
Toxic Communities: Environmental Racism, Industrial Pollution, and Residential Mobility
Examines the connections among residential segregation, zoning, and exposure to environmental hazards.

Ebook. Click title to read
Toxic Tourism: rhetorics of pollution, travel, and environmental justice by Phaedra Carmen Pezzullo
Publication Date: 2007
This book examines "Toxic tours as a tactic of resistance and for their potential in reducing the cultural and physical distance between hosts and visitors.

Ebook. Click title to read
Toxic Town: IBM, Pollution, and Industrial Risks by Peter C. Little
Publication Date: 2014
Shows the risks of high-tech pollution through a study of an IBM plant's effects on a New York town.

Ebook. Click title to read