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Author : Adeline Levine
Release : 1982
Genre : Science
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Book Synopsis Love Canal by : Adeline Levine
Download or read book Love Canal written by Adeline Levine. This book was released on 1982. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard S. Newman
Release : 2016-04-12
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 842/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Love Canal by : Richard S. Newman
Download or read book Love Canal written by Richard S. Newman. This book was released on 2016-04-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Initially seeking evacuation, area activists soon found that they were engaged in a far larger battle over the meaning of America's industrial past and its environmental future. 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 broader landscape, detailing the way this ever-contentious region has been used, altered, and understood from the colonial era to the present day. Newman journeys into colonial land use battles between Native Americans and European settlers, 19th-century utopian city planning, the rise of the American chemical industry in the 20th century, the transformation of environmental activism in the 1970s, and the memory of environmental disasters in our own time. In an era of hydrofracking and renewed concern about nuclear waste disposal, Love Canal remains relevant. It is only by starting at the very beginning of the site's environmental history that we can understand the road to a hazardous waste crisis in the 1970s-and to the global environmental justice movement it sparked.
Author : Penelope Ploughman PhD JD
Release : 2013-03-25
Genre : Technology & Engineering
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Book Rating : 994/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Love Canal by : Penelope Ploughman PhD JD
Download or read book Love Canal written by Penelope Ploughman PhD JD. This book was released on 2013-03-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love Canal originated in 1894 as part of William T. Love's dream to build a model city and power canal. The neighborhood emerged in the 1970s as an environmental nightmare and harbinger of the worldwide hazardous waste crisis. Photographs in Love Canal tell the story of the community's early development and the subsequent use of the canal by Hooker Electrochemical Company to discard industrial chemical waste from 1942 to 1953. In the late 1970s, the seemingly dormant dump began to leak, and residents found themselves in a slowly unfolding nightmare, learning that the waste dumped in the canal decades before was not simply garbage but actually a toxic brew of dangerous chemicals that were hazardous to life, health, and property.
Author : Elizabeth D. Blum
Release : 2008
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Love Canal Revisited : Race, Class, and Gender in Environmental Activism by : Elizabeth D. Blum
Download or read book Love Canal Revisited : Race, Class, and Gender in Environmental Activism written by Elizabeth D. Blum. This book was released on 2008. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical snapshots of the Love Canal area -- Gender at Love Canal -- Race at Love Canal -- Class at Love Canal -- Historical implications of gender, race, and class at Love Canal
Author : Allan Mazur
Release : 1998
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 330/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A Hazardous Inquiry by : Allan Mazur
Download or read book A Hazardous Inquiry written by Allan Mazur. This book was released on 1998. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
