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The Price of Nuclear Power : Uranium Communities and Environmental Justice /
Rising fossil fuel prices and concerns about greenhouse gas emissions are fostering a nuclear power renaissance and a revitalized uranium mining industry across the American West. In The Price of Nuclear Power, environmental sociologist Stephanie Malin offers an on-the-ground portrait of several ura...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, New Jersey :
Rutgers University Press,
[2015]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: the paradox of uranium production in a neoliberal era
- Booms, busts, and bombs : uranium's economic and environmental justice history in the US
- Lethal legacies in uranium communities : left in the dust in Monticello, Utah
- A transnational corporation comes home : the Piñon Ridge uranium mill & sites of resistance and acceptance to renewed uranium production
- "Just hangin' on by a thread" : spatial isolation, persistent poverty, and social dislocation in uranium communities
- "Better regs" in an era of deregulation : neoliberalized narratives of uranium industry regulatory compliance
- Conclusions and solutions : social sustainability and localized energy justice
- Appendix
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.