Toxic Injustice

Toxic Injustice
Author: Susanna Rankin Bohme
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2015
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0520278992

The pesticide dibromochloropropane, known as DBCP, was developed by the chemical companies Dow and Shell in the 1950s to target wormlike, soil-dwelling creatures called nematodes. Despite signs that the chemical was dangerous, it was widely used in U.S. agriculture and on Chiquita and Dole banana plantations in Central America. In the late 1970s, DBCP was linked to male sterility, but an uneven regulatory process left many workers—especially on Dole’s banana farms—exposed for years after health risks were known. Susanna Rankin Bohme tells an intriguing, multilayered history that spans fifty years, highlighting the transnational reach of corporations and social justice movements. Toxic Injustice links health inequalities and worker struggles as it charts how people excluded from workplace and legal protections have found ways to challenge power structures and seek justice from states and transnational corporations alike.

Circle of Poison

Circle of Poison
Author: David Weir
Publisher: Food First Books
Total Pages: 126
Release: 1981
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9780935028096

Every minute, someone in the Third World becomes a victim of pesticide poisoning. Circle of Poison documents the international marketing of restricted pesticides that leave a globe-circling trail of sickness and death. But the circle's victims are not silent. Around the world, people are fighting back.

Ecology Abstracts

Ecology Abstracts
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 454
Release: 1981
Genre: Ecology
ISBN:

Indexes journal articles in ecology and environmental science. Nearly 700 journals are indexed in full or in part, and the database indexes literature published from 1982 to the present. Coverage includes habitats, food chains, erosion, land reclamation, resource and ecosystems management, modeling, climate, water resources, soil, and pollution.