Item Details
ISBN:
- 9780230619838
- 0230619835
Edition: First edition.
Description: x, 235 pages : illustrations
Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- LSC 20.00
Contents:
- Minamata, Japan, 1950s
- London fog, England, 1952
- Windscale, England, 1957
- Seveso, Italy, 1976
- Love Canal, New York, 1978
- 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 warming.
LCCN: 2009019880
Control Number: 676586
Publisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.Subjects: Environmental disasters -- Case studies.
Genre: Case studies.