书目名称 | Resource Devastation on Native American Lands | 副标题 | Toxic Earth, Poisone | 编辑 | Bruce E. Johansen | 视频video | | 概述 | Offers a comprehensive account of environmental disasters in Native American homelands.Presents empirical evidence of the deadly environmental atrocities which affect Native peoples.Provides national | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | This book focuses on the toxic legacy of Native North America, which is pervasive but largely invisible to most non-Native peoples. Many toxic sites are located in out-of-the-way rural areas largely forgotten by the majority of America, but which nonetheless have supplied its industries with the rudiments of manufacturing for the better part of a century before being closed and cast aside. Thousands of contaminated sites exist in the United States due to dumped, left out, or otherwise improperly managed hazardous waste. These sites include manufacturing facilities, processing plants, landfills, and mining sites. Based on the 1980 Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA), the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) cleans up these so-called Superfund sites, of which roughly 40 percent are located in Native country..The book links present-day Native American cultural and economic revival to a fundamental struggle to restore the health of both Native peoples and their homelands. It links past and present with a sense of Native Americans’ perceptions of nature and the sacred land. By doing so, it also provides the majority society with an example t | 出版日期 | Book 2023 | 关键词 | Environmental disasters; Pollution; Hazardous waste; CERCLA; Superfund sites; Uranium; PCBs; Agent Orange; Q | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21896-5 | isbn_softcover | 978-3-031-21898-9 | isbn_ebook | 978-3-031-21896-5 | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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