Download or read book Flammable written by Javier Auyero and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-10 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surrounded by one of the largest petrochemical compounds in Argentina, a highly polluted river that brings the toxic waste of tanneries and other industries, a hazardous and largely unsupervised waste incinerator, and an unmonitored landfill, Flammable's soil, air, and water are contaminated with lead, chromium, benzene, and other chemicals. So are its nearly five thousand sickened and frail inhabitants. How do poor people make sense of and cope with toxic pollution? Why do they fail to understand what is objectively a clear and present danger? How are perceptions and misperceptions shared within a community? Based on archival research and two and a half years of collaborative ethnographic fieldwork in Flammable, this book examines the lived experiences of environmental suffering. Despite clear evidence to the contrary, residents allow themselves to doubt or even deny the hard facts of industrial pollution. This happens, the authors argue, through a "labor of confusion" enabled by state officials who frequently raise the issue of relocation and just as frequently suspend it; by the companies who fund local health care but assert that the area is unfit for human residence; by doctors who say the illnesses are no different from anywhere else but tell mothers they must leave the neighborhood if their families are to be cured; by journalists who randomly appear and focus on the most extreme aspects of life there; and by lawyers who encourage residents to hold out for a settlement. These contradictory actions, advice, and information work together to shape the confused experience of living in danger and ultimately translates into a long, ineffective, and uncertain waiting time, a time dictated by powerful interests and shared by all marginalized groups. With luminous and vivid descriptions of everyday life in the neighborhood, Auyero and Swistun depict this on-going slow motion human and environmental disaster and dissect the manifold ways in which it is experienced by Flammable residents.

Download or read book Limits of Flammability of Gases and Vapors written by Hubert Frank Coward and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Flammability and Sensitivity of Materials in Oxygen enriched Atmospheres written by David B. Hirsch and published by ASTM International. This book was released on 2006 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Flammability and Sensitivity of Materials in Oxygen enriched Atmospheres written by Joel M. Stoltzfus and published by ASTM International. This book was released on 1993 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Fire and Flammability of Furnishings and Contents of Buildings written by Andrew J. Fowell and published by ASTM International. This book was released on 1994 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Flammability and Sensitivity of Materials in Oxygen enriched Atmospheres written by Dennis W. Schroll and published by ASTM International. This book was released on 1988 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceeding held at Churchill College, Cambridge, England, April 1987. A reference for both the skilled and the uninitiated in the concepts and practices for the design and maintenance of all types of oxygen systems. Cov five areas: ignition of metals, nonmetal ignition, material selection for oxygen.

Download or read book Flammable Fabrics written by United States. Congress. Senate. Comm. on interstate and foreign commerce and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Flammable Fabrics written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Chemical Laboratory Safety and Security written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2016-08-07 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Department of State charged the Academies with the task of producing a protocol for development of standard operating procedures (SOPs) that would serve as a complement to the Chemical Laboratory Safety and Security: A Guide to Prudent Chemical Management and be included with the other materials in the 2010 toolkit. To accomplish this task, a committee with experience and knowledge in good chemical safety and security practices in academic and industrial laboratories with awareness of international standards and regulations was formed. The hope is that this toolkit expansion product will enhance the use of the previous reference book and the accompanying toolkit, especially in developing countries where safety resources are scarce and experience of operators and end-users may be limited.

Download or read book Flammable Fabrics Act and Product Safety Commission Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Commerce and Finance 90 1 on H R 5654 H R 5474 H R 6142 H R 7471 H R H J Res 357 April 5 11 14 27 July 31 1967 written by United States. Congress. House. Interstate and Foreign Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Flammable Fabrics Act premarket Testing written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee on Commerce and Finance and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Flammable Fabrics Program 1970 written by United States. National Bureau of Standards and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Authorize Appropriations for Flammable Fabrics Act and Fire Research and Safety Act of 1968 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce. Consumer Subcommittee and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Flammable Fabrics Act written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers legislation to prohibit the introduction into interstate commerce of highly flammable apparel and fabrics.

Download or read book Safer Gardens written by Lesley Corbett and published by Australian Scholarly Publishing. This book was released on 2021-07-02 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Destructive bushfires are increasing in frequency and intensity around the world. For people living in fire prone areas there are no reliable guides about which plants have low flammability and which are frighteningly flammable. Safer Gardens is that guide, with over 500 plants assessed, based on fire research from around the world. Readers can look up a plant in the Plant Flammability Table to get an idea of its flammability then turn to the A–Z for more detailed information. The book contains advice about ways to create a more firesafe garden, including the need to carefully manage the use of mulch and hedges. This is citizen science, written by a gardener for other gardeners. Complex and potentially confusing science is made comprehensible and usable, to help you make your garden and hence your house safer.

Download or read book Flammable Fabrics Act Amendments of 1967 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee on Commerce and Finance and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Committee Serial No. 90-9. Considers S. 1003, to expand coverage of the Flammable Fabrics Act and provide for establishment and enforcement of new standards of inflammability.

Download or read book Reports Required by the Flammable Fabrics Act written by U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: