Dangerous cargo and uneven toxic risks: petrochemicals in the [ort of New Orleans

Mah, A. (2015) Dangerous cargo and uneven toxic risks: petrochemicals in the [ort of New Orleans. In: Birtchnell, T., Savitzky, S. and Urry, J. (eds.) Cargomobilities: Moving Materials in a Global Age. Routledge: London and New York, pp. 149-162. ISBN 9781315866673 (doi: 10.4324/9781315866673-9)

Abstract

This chapter argues that dangerous cargo has farther-reaching consequences than the regulations surrounding its safe passage from one port to another. The production, consumption and routes of dangerous cargo reproduce a highly uneven geography of toxic risks, burdening the most marginalized and disadvantaged populations around the world. This chapter's analysis of the unequal health and environmental hazards of dangerous cargo contributes to wider debates about the uneven geography of capitalist development, which suggest that capitalism develops unevenly across space and time, producing inequalities of power, wealth and well-being.

• Item Type: Book Sections (Other)
• Status: Published
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Mah, Professor Alice
• Authors: Mah, A.
• Subjects: G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > G Geography (General); G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GF Human ecology. Anthropogeography; H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General); H Social Sciences > HE Transportation and Communications
• College/School: College of Social Sciences > School of Social and Political Sciences > Urban Studies
• Publisher: Routledge
• ISBN: 9781315866673