Love Canal : a toxic history from Colonial times to the present /

A history of the Love Canal region from the nation's founding and the utopian city planned for the Niagara area to the building of the region's chemistry industry to the environmental disaster at Love Canal and its aftermath.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Newman, Richard S. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, [2016]
Temas:
Pollution > New York (State) > Niagara Falls Metropolitain Area > History.
Hazardous waste site remediation > New York (State) > Niagara Falls Metropolitain Area > History.
Environmental Pollution > history
Hazardous Waste Sites > history
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Infrastructure
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
Ecology
Hazardous waste site remediation
Pollution
Love Canal Chemical Waste Landfill (Niagara Falls, N.Y.) > History.
New York (State) > Environmental conditions > History.
Love Canal Chemical Waste Landfill (Niagara Falls, N.Y.) > Histoire.
New York (État) > Conditions environnementales > Histoire.
New York (State)
New York (State) > Niagara Falls > Love Canal Chemical Waste Landfill
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover ; Half Title Page ; Title Page ; Copyright ; Dedication ; Epigraph ; Contents; Preface/Acknowledgments ; Key Abbreviations; Second Half Title Page ; Introduction: Of Burial Mounds and Toxic Tombs ; PART ONE: LOVE CANAL IN THE ERA OF GREAT DREAMS ; 1. Past as Prologue: Developing Niagara Before Love Canal ; 2. Building Love's Canal
  • 3. The Master of the Chemical Machine: The Rise of Hooker 4. Worlds Collide at Love's Canal ; PART TWO: LOVE CANAL IN THE ERA OF ENVIRONMENTALISM ; 5. A Toxic Subdivision: The Problem at Love Canal ; 6. Growing Protest at Love Canal ; 7. Widening the Circle of Influence
  • PART THREE: LEARNING FROM LOVE CANAL 8. In the End Is the Beginning: Love Canal Lessons ; 9. Creative Destruction: Resettling Love Canal and Its Discontents ; Epilogue: Haunted Love ; Notes ; Index

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