Smelter smoke in North America : the politics of transborder pollution

Title
  1. Smelter smoke in North America : the politics of transborder pollution / John D. Wirth.
Published by
  1. Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, ©2000.
Author
  1. Wirth, John D.

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Description
  1. xx, 264 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Summary
  1. "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
  1. Development of western resources
Uniform title
  1. Development of western resources
Subject
  1. Smelting > Environmental aspects > Canada
  2. Smelting > Environmental aspects > Mexico
  3. Air > Pollution > North America
  4. Transboundary pollution > North America
  5. Air > Pollution
  6. Smelting > Environmental aspects
  7. Transboundary pollution
  8. Luftverschmutzung
  9. Fusion (métallurgie) > Aspect de l'environnement > Canada
  10. Fusion (métallurgie) > Aspect de l'environnement > Mexique
  11. Atmosphère > Pollution > Amérique du Nord
  12. Canada
  13. Mexico
  14. North America
  15. Nordamerika
Contents
  1. 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.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-252) and index.