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Filtering by: Creator Frumkin, Jeremy Subject Groundwater pollution -- New York (State) -- Endicott -- Public opinion

"Instead of tumbleweed, we have mitigation systems" : an ethnography of toxics risk, mitigation, and advocacy in IBM's deindustrialized birthplace

Creator:

Little, Peter C.

Abstract:

This dissertation draws on ethnographic data and political ecological theory to analyze the experience of residents living in the IBM-Endicott Superfund site in Endicott, New York. Combining in-depth narratives and quantitative measures from a household survey, it highlights residents' perceptions of 1) environmental health risk, 2) risk mitigation, 3) deindustrialization...

Resource Type:

Dissertation

Full Text:

Ellison, Ben Bellarado, Jeremy Omvig, Chris Barrett, Justin Schoeffer, and Natasa Garic