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Principles of Environmental Science
William P. Cunningham, University of Minnesota
Mary Ann Cunningham, Vassar College
Solid and Hazardous Waste

Further Readings


Ackerman, Frank.. Why Do We Recycle?. Covelo, CA: Island Press. (Examines arguments for and against recycling.).
1997

Bartsch, Charles and Elizabeth C. Collaton.. (Island Press). 1997. Brownfields: Cleaning and Reusing Contaminated Properties.: Covelo, CA. (urban lands are a serious barrier to community development.).
Unused, contaminated

May/June

Brand, Martha and John Herman... "Brownfields in Bloom: Restoring Contaminated Properties,". : Bench & Bar. (Legal issues in Superfund reclamation.).
1997

A revised classic in the field of environmental justice.

1997: 33-37.. (Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class, and Environmental Quality 3rd ed.). . Bullard, Robert D.: 2000. (Westview Press.).
Boulder, CO

Buenrostro, O, G. Bocco, and S. Cram.. (2001). "Classification of sources of municipal solid wastes in developing countries". : Resources, Conservation and Recycling. (32(1): 29-41).
Research on sources and types of wastes in developing countries.

Burgos, M. G., and P. S. Rainbow.. (2001). "Availability of cadmium and zinc from sewage sludge to the flounder, Platichthys flesus, via a marine food chain.". : Marine Environmental Research. (Heavy metals in sewage sludge represent a serious threat to marine food webs.).
51(5): 417-439.

Edelstein, Michael.. (2001). Contaminated communities: Psychosocial Impacts from the Contamination of Home and Place 2nd ed.. Boulder, CO:: Westview Press..
A psychosocial, view of toxic contamination and its effects.

Faber, D.. (1998). The Struggle for Ecological Democracy: Environmental Justice Movements in the United States.. New York: Guilford.
Examples and case studies from the environmental justice movement.

Gardner, Gary and Payal Sampat.. (1999). "Making Things Last: Reinventing Our Material Culture.". : The Futurist.. (May 1999: 24-28.).
Good tips on how we can reduce trash production.

Greenpeace.. (1997). "Stop Shintech's PVC Machine,". : Greenpeace Quarterly. (2(1):10.).
Local residents in Louisiana's "cancer alley" organize to resist more pollution.

Horrigan, Alice and Jim Motavalli.. (1997). "Talking Trash,". : E Magazine. (8(2):28-35.).
Recycling is under attack, but its successes outweigh its setbacks.

Langewiesche, William.. (2000). "The Shipbreakers,". : Atlantic Monthly. (262 (2): 31-51.).
A chilling story of how obsolete ships are dismantled on the beach at Anlang, India.

Low, N. and B. Gleeson.. (1998). Justice, Society and Nature: An exploration of political ecology. London: Routledge.
A comprehensive discussion of the roots of environmental justice.

Montague, Peter.. (1997). "A New U.S. Waste Strategy Emerges, Part I," Rachel's Environment & Health Weekly #560. Annapolis, MD: Environmental Research Foundation..
Web site: http://www.monitor.net/rachel/

O'Neill, K.. (2000). Waste Trading Among Rich Nations.. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Most hazardous waste shipments are between wealthy industrialized countries. What are its effects and how should it be regulated?

Ryan, John C. and Alan T. Durning.. (1997). Stuff: The Secret Lives of Everyday Things.. Seattle: Northwest Environment Watch.
What happens to all our stuff when we discard it?

Tammemagi, Hans Y.. (1999). The Waste Crisis: Landfills, Incinerators, and the Search for a Sustainable Future.. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
A global overview of the problem of waste disposal.

Taylor, D. (ed).. (2000). "Advances in Environmental Justice,". : American Behavioral Scientist 43(4):January 2000.
A special issued devoted to this topic.

Warren, K.. (1999). "Environmental Justice,". : Environmental Ethics. (21(2): 151-160.).
An ecofeminist view of justice.

Zago, C. et al.. (2001). "Changes in the metal content of superficial sediments of Boston Harbor since the cessation of sludge discharge.". : Marine Environmental Research. (51(5): 389-415.).
Dumping of sewage sludge into Boston Harbor created an anoxic zone laden with toxic metals, which will remain in sediments for years.








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