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The supervision of environmental risk: the case of HCB waste or Botany/Randwick?
Full Abstract
The governance activities of capital and the state include attempts to control the timing and spacing of social activities such as the production of environmental risks and settlement of different social groups. The supervisory activities that have shaped the environmental and social history of the Botany/Randwick area are identified here, to examine how the HCB waste risk developed in that community. The analysis shows that multiple environmental risks and an ethnically diverse, working class community have been brought together in space to create environmental injustice. Analysing the governance of one environmental risk like hexachlorobenzene (HCB) waste may not increase understanding about communities facing multiple environmental risks or the supervisory processes that lead to the unfair accumulation of risks for particular places or social groups. Lessons from the environmental justice movement suggest that reframing problems like HCB waste management at Botany/Randwick as distributive justice issues may contribute to governance arrangements that better manage multiple risks and pollution sources in space affecting marginalised communities.
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Author/s: James, Peggy (P);
Affiliation: Faculty of the Built Environment, University of NSW, Sydeny NSW, Australia. hecko(-atsign-)geko.net.au
Journal and publication information
Publication Type: Historical Article; Journal Article
Journal: Journal of environmental management (J Environ Manage), published in England. (Language: eng)
Reference: 2009-Apr; vol 90 (issue 4) : pp 1576-82
Dates: Created 2009/03/02; Completed 2009/05/11;
PMID: 18774215, status: MEDLINE (last retrieved date: 5/11/2009)
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Associated Chemicals: Hazardous Waste (0) ; Industrial Waste (0) ; Hexachlorobenzene (118-74-1)Related articles
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