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Smelter smoke in North America : the politics of transborder pollution
- Title
- Smelter smoke in North America : the politics of transborder pollution / John D. Wirth.
- Author
- Wirth, John D.
- Publication
- Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, ©2000.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | TD888.M4 W57 2000 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xx, 264 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Air pollution challenges nations sharing common borders to balance economic needs with protecting citizens and the environment across jurisdictions. By examining landmark cases on the two borders, John Wirth shows how environmental diplomacy, citizen action at the grassroots level, and the role of science, industry, and the law converged, bringing Canada, the United States, and Mexico to the threshold of today's continental approaches to pollutant pathways." "Smelter Smoke in North America provides new analysis of the development of a North American institutional response to continental air pollution. It chronicles how industry developed a continental perspective in a shared regional space, the mineralized West, and how successful efforts of governments and citizens to protect the environment evolved."--Jacket.
- Series Statement
- Development of western resources
- Uniform Title
- Development of western resources
- Subject
- Smelting > Environmental aspects > Canada
- Smelting > Environmental aspects > Mexico
- Air > Pollution > North America
- Transboundary pollution > North America
- Air > Pollution
- Smelting > Environmental aspects
- Transboundary pollution
- Luftverschmutzung
- Fusion (métallurgie) > Aspect de l'environnement > Canada
- Fusion (métallurgie) > Aspect de l'environnement > Mexique
- Atmosphère > Pollution > Amérique du Nord
- Canada
- Mexico
- North America
- Nordamerika
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-252) and index.
- Contents
- pt. I. The Trail Smelter Dispute, 1927-1941. 1. Settlers and Smelters in the Columbia River Valley. 2. "This Most Illusive of Problems": The Scientific Dispute. 3. Paths Taken and Not Taken -- pt. II. The Gray Triangle Confrontations of the 1980s. 4. Smoke from Douglas. 5. Mining Is Rarely a Local Event. 6. The Gray Triangle. 7. Continental Pathways.
- ISBN
- 0700609849
- 9780700609840
- LCCN
- 99038225
- OCLC
- ocm41674430
- 41674430
- SCSB-962463
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library