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A Town Called Asbestos: Environmental Contamination, Health, and Resilience in a Resource Community: Nature | History | Society

Autor Jessica van Horssen
en Limba Engleză Paperback – iul 2016
For decades, manufacturers from around the world relied on asbestos from the town of Asbestos, Quebec, to produce fire-retardant products. Then, over time, people learned about the mineral’s devastating effects on human health. Dependent on this deadly industry for their community’s survival, the residents of Asbestos developed a unique, place-based understanding of their local environment; the risks they faced living next to the giant opencast mine; and their place within the global resource trade. This book unearths the local-global tensions that defined Asbestos’s proud and painful history to reveal the challenges similar resource communities have faced – and continue to face today.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780774828420
ISBN-10: 0774828420
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 153 x 230 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Editura: University of British Columbia Press
Colecția University of British Columbia Press
Seria Nature | History | Society


Cuprins

Foreword: The Long Dying / Graeme Wynn
Introduction: Introducing Asbestos
1 Creation Stories: Asbestos before 1918
2 Land with a Future, Not a Past, 1918–49
3 Negotiating Risk, 1918–49
4 Essential Characteristics, 1918–49
5 Bodies Collide: The Strike of 1949
6 “Une ville qui se deplace,” 1949–83
7 Useful Tools, 1949–83
8 Altered Authority, 1949–83
Conclusion: Surviving Collapse: Asbestos Post-1983
Notes; Bibliography; Index