The Road To Love Canal

Author : Craig E. Colten,Peter N. Skinner
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-28
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780292789739

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The Road to Love Canal by Craig E. Colten,Peter N. Skinner Pdf

The toxic legacy of Love Canal vividly brought the crisis in industrial waste disposal to public awareness across the United States and led to the passage of the Superfund legislation in 1980. To discover why disasters like Love Canal have occurred and whether they could have been averted with knowledge available to waste managers of the time, this book examines industrial waste disposal before the formation of the Environmental Protection Agency in 1970. Colten and Skinner build their study around three key questions. First, what was known before 1970 about the hazards of certain industrial wastes and their potential for causing public health problems? Second, what were the technical capabilities for treating or containing wastes during that time? And third, what factors other than technical knowledge guided the actions of waste managers before the enactment of explicit federal laws? The authors find that significant information about the hazards of industrial wastes existed before 1970. Their explanations of why this knowledge did not prevent the toxic legacy now facing us will be essential reading for environmental historians and lawyers, public health personnel, and concerned citizens.

Author : Mary Clifford
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0834210096

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Environmental Crime by Mary Clifford Pdf

Appendices include: Glossary, Important environmental activities, Criminal sanctions outlined in federal environmental legislation, environmental legal cases, environmental crimes investigations for law enforcement officers.

Author : Richard N. L. Andrews
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Environmental management
ISBN : 9780300222913

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Managing the Environment, Managing Ourselves by Richard N. L. Andrews Pdf

In the third edition of this definitive book, Richard N. L. Andrews looks back at four centuries of American environmental policy, showing how these policies affect contemporary environmental issues and public policy decisions, and identifying key policy challenges for the future. Andrews crafts a detailed and contextualized narrative of the historical development of American environmental policies and institutions. This volume presents an extensively revised text, with increased detail on the fifty-year history of the modern environmental policy era and is updated through the Obama and Trump administrations.

Author : Alexander Gillespie
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780192551566

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The Long Road to Sustainability by Alexander Gillespie Pdf

For the last few thousand years, humanity has struggled to achieve sustainable development. Gillespie sees the problem as multi-faceted: a three legged stool of economic, social, and environmental conundrums have stalled the quest for the long term viability of both our species and the ecosystems in which we reside. Gillespie moves from the low life expectancy, excessive deforestation, and wetland drainage of the medieval period, through the species loss, coal burning, free trade, and poor waste management of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and to the more recent concerns of climate change, unsustainable fisheries, and chemical pollutants. By delivering a comprehensive examination of human survival over the past millennium, Gillespie illustrates that the challenges we face are not new - that we now have the means to counter them, is.

Author : Elizabeth D. Blum
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2008-03-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780700618200

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Love Canal Revisited by Elizabeth D. Blum Pdf

Thirty years after the headlines, Love Canal remains synonymous with toxic waste. When this neighborhood of Niagara Falls, New York, burst upon the nation's consciousness, the media focused on a working-class white woman named Lois Gibbs, who gained prominence as an activist fighting to save families from the poison buried beneath their homes. Her organization, the Love Canal Homeowners Association, challenged big government and big business-and ultimately won relocation. But as Elizabeth Blum now shows, the activists at Love Canal were a very diverse lot. Blum reveals that more lurks beneath the surface of this story than most people realize-and more than mere toxins. She takes readers behind the headlines to show that others besides Gibbs played important roles and to examine how race, class, and gender influenced the way people-from African American women to middle class white Christian groups-experienced the crisis and became active at Love Canal. Blum explores the often-rocky interracial relationships of the community, revealing how marginalized black women fought to be heard as they defined their environmental activism as an ongoing part of the civil rights struggle. And she examines how the middle-class Ecumenical Task Force-consisting of progressive, educated whites-helped to negotiate legal obstacles and to secure the means to relocate and compensate black residents. Blum also demonstrates how the crisis challenged gender lines far beyond casting mothers in activist roles. Women of the LCHA may have rejected feminism because of its anti-family stance, but they staunchly believed in their rights. And the incident changed the lives of working-class men, who found their wives in the front lines rather than in the kitchen. In addition, male bureaucrats and politicians ran into significant opposition from groups of both men and women who pressed for greater emphasis on health rather than economics for solutions to the crisis. No previous account of Love Canal has considered the plight of these other segments of the population. By doing so, Blum shows that environmental activism opens a window on broader social movements and ideas, such as civil rights and feminism. Her book moves the story of Love Canal well beyond its iconic legacy-the Superfund Act that makes polluters accountable-to highlight another vital legacy, one firmly rooted in race, class, and gender.

Author : Richard S. Newman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195374834

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Love Canal by Richard S. Newman Pdf

"In the summer of 1978, residents of Love Canal, a suburban development in Niagara Falls, NY, began protesting against the leaking toxic waste dump in their midst--a sixteen-acre site containing 100,000 barrels of chemical waste that anchored their neighborhood. The Love Canal protest movement inaugurated the era of grassroots environmentalism, spawning new anti-toxics laws and new models of ecological protest. Historian Richard S. Newman examines the Love Canal crisis through the area's boarder landscape, detailing the way this ever-contentious region has been used, altered, and understood from the colonial era to the present day."--Inside cover.

Author : William J. Rea,Kalpana D. Patel
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 990 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-22
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781439813515

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Reversibility of Chronic Disease and Hypersensitivity, Volume 4 by William J. Rea,Kalpana D. Patel Pdf

Reversibility of Chronic Disease and Hypersensitivity, Volume 4: The Environmental Aspects of Chemical Sensitivity is the fourth of an encyclopedic five-volume set describing the basic physiology, chemical sensitivity, diagnosis, and treatment of chronic degenerative disease studied in a 5x less polluted controlled environment. This text focuses on treatment techniques, strategies, protocols, prescriptions, and technologies. Distinguishing itself from previous works on chemical sensitivity, it explains newly understood mechanisms of chronic disease and hypersensitivity, involving core molecular function. The authors discuss new information on ground regulation system, genetics, the autonomic nervous system, and immune and non-immune functions. The book also includes the latest technology and cutting-edge techniques, numerous figures, and supporting research.

Author : Jennifer Reed
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Chemical industry
ISBN : 9781438124827

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Love Canal by Jennifer Reed Pdf

Rumors had circulated for years that the Love Canal community near Niagara Falls, New York, was contaminated by toxic chemicals.

Author : Nancy C. Unger
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199735075

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Beyond Nature's Housekeepers by Nancy C. Unger Pdf

This book highlights the unique and complex role women have played in the shaping of the American environment from pre-Columbian Native Americans to present day environmental justice activists.

Author : Michael Egan,Jeff Crane
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2009-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135276805

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Natural Protest by Michael Egan,Jeff Crane Pdf

From Jamestown to 9/11, concerns about the landscape, husbanding of natural resources, and the health of our environment have been important to the American way of life. Natural Protest is the first collection of original essays to offer a cohesive social and political examination of environmental awareness, activism, and justice throughout American history. Editors Michael Egan and Jeff Crane have selected the finest new scholarship in the field, establishing this complex and fascinating subject firmly at the forefront of American historical study. Focused and thought-provoking, Natural Protest presents a cutting-edge perspective on American environmentalism and environmental history, providing an invaluable resource for anyone concerned about the ecological fate of the world around us.

Author : Barney Warf
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 3560 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781452265179

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Encyclopedia of Geography by Barney Warf Pdf

Simply stated, geography studies the locations of things and the explanations that underlie spatial distributions. Profound forces at work throughout the world have made geographical knowledge increasingly important for understanding numerous human dilemmas and our capacities to address them. With more than 1,200 entries, the Encyclopedia of Geography reflects how the growth of geography has propelled a demand for intermediaries between the abstract language of academia and the ordinary language of everyday life. The six volumes of this encyclopedia encapsulate a diverse array of topics to offer a comprehensive and useful summary of the state of the discipline in the early 21st century. Key Features Gives a concise historical sketch of geography's long, rich, and fascinating history, including human geography, physical geography, and GIS Provides succinct summaries of trends such as globalization, environmental destruction, new geospatial technologies, and cyberspace Decomposes geography into the six broad subject areas: physical geography; human geography; nature and society; methods, models, and GIS; history of geography; and geographer biographies, geographic organizations, and important social movements Provides hundreds of color illustrations and images that lend depth and realism to the text Includes a special map section Key Themes Physical Geography Human Geography Nature and Society Methods, Models, and GIS People, Organizations, and Movements History of Geography This encyclopedia strategically reflects the enormous diversity of the discipline, the multiple meanings of space itself, and the diverse views of geographers. It brings together the diversity of geographical knowledge, making it an invaluable resource for any academic library.

Author : Sunaura Taylor
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520393073

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Disabled Ecologies by Sunaura Taylor Pdf

A powerful analysis and call to action that reveals disability as one of the defining features of environmental devastation and resistance. Deep below the ground in Tucson, Arizona, lies an aquifer forever altered by the detritus of a postwar Superfund site. Disabled Ecologies tells the story of this contamination and its ripple effects through the largely Mexican American community living above. Drawing on her own complex relationship to this long-ago injured landscape, Sunaura Taylor takes us with her to follow the site's disabled ecology—the networks of disability, both human and wild, that are created when ecosystems are corrupted and profoundly altered. What Taylor finds is a story of entanglements that reach far beyond the Sonoran Desert. These stories tell of debilitating and sometimes life-ending injuries, but they also map out alternative modes of connection, solidarity, and resistance—an environmentalism of the injured. An original and deeply personal reflection on what disability means in an era of increasing multispecies disablement, Disabled Ecologies is a powerful call to reflect on the kinds of care, treatment, and assistance this age of disability requires.

Author : Marcos Luna
Publisher : Infobase Learning
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : United States
ISBN : 9781438138114

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The Environment Since 1945 by Marcos Luna Pdf

Examines numerous controversies in environmental politics and policy since 1945, including the Donora smog event of 1948, building dams in national parks, the passage of the National Environmental Protection Act, the banning of DDT, the Love Canal crisis, the Exxon Valdez oil spill, the Makah whale hunt, and environmental racism.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Economic policy
ISBN : MSU:31293016324836

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Forum for Applied Research and Public Policy by Anonim Pdf

Author : Allan Mazur
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0674748336

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A Hazardous Inquiry by Allan Mazur Pdf

Love Canal--a community poisoned by toxic waste. Borrowing the multi-viewpoint technique of the classic Japanese film RASHOMON, sociologist/engineer Allan Mazur reveals that there are many--often conflicting--versions of what occurred at Love Canal. His collection of gripping personal tales tells how politics, journalism, and epidemiology often clash, when confronting a potential community disaster.