This borrowed earth
Subtitle: lessons from the fifteen worst environmental disasters around the world
By: Robert Emmet Hernan ; foreword by Bill McKibben ; preface by Graham Nash.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230619838
Subjects: Environmental disasters -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Minamata, Japan, 1950s; title: London fog, England, 1952; title: Windscale, England, 1957; title: Seveso, Italy, 1976; title: Love Canal, New York, 1978; title: Mile Island, Pennsylvania, 1979; title: Times Beach, Missouri, 1982; title: Bhopal, India, 1984; title: Chernobyl, Ukraine, 1986; title: Rhine River, Switzerland, 1986; title: Prince William Sound, Alaska, 1989; title: Oil spills and fires of Kuwait, 1991; title: Dassen and Robben Islands, South Africa, 2000; title: Brazilian rainforest; title: Global warming.