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other books have focused on environmental injustice in the U.S.
South, no single volume has examined such issues and problems in
Florida at the metropolitan scale. This book is a compilation of
original empirical research on the nexus between the environmental
and social inequalities in Tampa Bay, Florida's fastest growing
metropolitan area. Systematic research about spatial and
environmental justice are largely absent from the rich
historiography of Florida, especially the Tampa Bay metropolitan
area of southwest Florida. Recent empirical evidence suggests that
environmental justice is a real and emergent problem within Tampa
Bay afflicting many deprived communities and socially excluded
groups. Moreover, certain communities are not only unevenly exposed
to environmental risks, but are also disproportionately vulnerable
to their many adverse health effects. Our book thus fills a
critical need to explore both the causes and consequences of
environmental injustice in Tampa Bay. This book combines the latest
theoretical insights on spatial and environmental justice with
empirical case studies which examine racial/ethnic and
socioeconomic inequities associated with various undesirable land
uses and pollution sources in Hillsborough County, Tampa Bay's
largest population and economic center. The book offers a
progressive approach to a more long-term, comprehensive examination
of a rapidly emerging field of study that provides academic
scholars and decision-makers with new perspectives on a variety of
environmental and social challenges confronting metropolitan
Florida in the 21st century. It could offer guidance to
metropolitan policy makers and planners, especially public health
professionals, social welfare providers, infrastructure developers,
emergency responders, and community activists. For this reason,
this book should also be of interest to business associations,
environmental groups, and members of the general public.
Much has been written about the economic and political implications
of the contemporary process of globalization. Much less has been
written about the specific cultural implications. Previously
published as a special issue of Globalizations, this book seeks to
add to our knowledge of the latter by bringing together researchers
from different disciplines with the common goal of exploring the
emerging cultural relations among groups and individuals in terms
of coherence and hybridity, identity and allegiance, and
cooperation and conflict. As the world's peoples increasingly
travel, work, trade, recreate, and otherwise communicate with each
other, relative cultural isolation (and isolationism) is becoming
less and less possible. What does this mean for cultural coherence,
stability and identity across the planet? What have been the
cultural implications of, and reactions to, this increasing global
interdependence among peoples? From more global and theoretical
perspectives to more empirical and case-specific approaches, the
various authors attempt to come to terms with the ever evolving and
complex cultural content of contemporary globalization.
Much has been written about the economic and political implications
of the contemporary process of globalization. Much less has been
written about the specific cultural implications. Previously
published as a special issue of Globalizations, this book seeks to
add to our knowledge of the latter by bringing together researchers
from different disciplines with the common goal of exploring the
emerging cultural relations among groups and individuals in terms
of coherence and hybridity, identity and allegiance, and
cooperation and conflict. As the world's peoples increasingly
travel, work, trade, recreate, and otherwise communicate with each
other, relative cultural isolation (and isolationism) is becoming
less and less possible. What does this mean for cultural coherence,
stability and identity across the planet? What have been the
cultural implications of, and reactions to, this increasing global
interdependence among peoples? From more global and theoretical
perspectives to more empirical and case-specific approaches, the
various authors attempt to come to terms with the ever evolving and
complex cultural content of contemporary globalization.
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