Smelter Smoke in North America
Subtitle: The Politics of Transborder Pollution (Development of Western Resources)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: September 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780700609840
Subjects: Public Affairs & Administration; Mexico; Environmental Science; Smelting; North American; Politics / Current Events; International Relations - General; North America; Environmental aspects; Environmental; Economics - General; Pollution; Air; Atmospheric pollution; Environmental Economics; Environmental Policy; History; History: World; Canada
Description: "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.