This borrowed earth : lessons from the fifteen worst environmental disasters around the world
Hernan, Robert Emmet2010
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Main title:
This borrowed earth : lessons from the fifteen worst environmental disasters around the world / Robert Emmet Hernan ; foreword by Bill McKibben ; preface by Graham Nash.
Author:
Imprint:
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Collation:
x, 235 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Minamata, Japan, 1950s -- London, England, 1952 -- Windscale, England, 1957 -- Seveso, Italy, 1976 -- Love Canal, New York, 1978 -- Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania, 1979 -- Times Beach, Missouri, 1982 -- Bhopal, India, 1984 -- Chernobyl, Ukraine, 1986 -- Rhine River, Switzerland, 1986 -- Prince William Sound, Alaska, 1989 -- Oil spills and fires of Kuwait, 1991 -- Dassen and Robben Islands, South Africa, 2000 -- Brazilian rainforest -- Global climate change.
ISBN:
97802306198380230619835
Dewey class:
363.7
Language:
English
BRN:
157560
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brighton Library | Adult Non Fiction - Environment | 363.7 HER | Available |