Networked Disease: Emerging Infections in the Global CityISBN: 978-1-4051-6133-6
Hardcover
380 pages
September 2008, Wiley-Blackwell
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S. Harris Ali is a trained Environmental Sociologist and an
Associate Professor at the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York
University, Toronto. His research interests involve the study of
environmental health issues and the sociology of disasters and risk
from an interdisciplinary perspective. He has published on toxic
contamination events and disease outbreaks in such journals as
Social Problems, Social Science and Medicine, The Canadian
Review of Sociology and Anthropology, and the Journal of
Canadian Public Policy.
Roger Keil is the Director of the City Institute, and Professor at the Faculty of Environmental Studies, at York University, Toronto. His publications include Los Angeles: Urbanization, Globalization and Social Struggles; Nature and the City: Making Environmental Policy in Toronto and Los Angeles; and The Global Cities Reader. Keil is the co-editor of the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research and a member of the International Network for Urban Research and Action.