Political ecology: Rethink Campania's toxic-waste scandal
Salvatore Paolo De Rosa, Marco Armiero, Giacomo D'Alisa
As you point out, it is not easy to prove a correlation between the health issues of people in Italy's Campania region and their exposure to toxic waste (see Nature 508, 431; 2014). The authorities seem to prefer to blame lifestyle factors, but that does not explain why thousands of…