Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 143 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Engineering case studies online (text) |
Contents |
Coal mining tragedies -- Turtle Mountain, Canada, 1903 -- Aberfan, Wales, 1966 -- Buffalo Creek, West Virginia, 1972 -- Dam failures -- Santa Clara River, California, 1928 -- Teton River, Idaho, 1976 -- Vaiont River Valley, Italy, 1963 -- Government actions -- Hiroshima, Japan, 1945 -- Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands, 1946 -- Ukraine, Soviet Union, 1932 -- Morris County, New Jersey, 1926 -- Halifax, Canada, 1917 -- Industrial explosions -- Oppau, Germany, 1921 -- Texas City, Texas, 1947 -- Cleveland, Ohio, 1944 -- Mexico City, Mexico, 1984 -- Flixborough, England, 1974 -- Nuclear energy accidents -- Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania, 1979 -- Chernobyl, Soviet Union, 1986 -- Tokai, Japan, 1999 -- Oil spills -- Coastal Brittany, France, 1978 -- Prince William Sound, Alaska, 1989 -- Black Island Sound, Rhode Island, 1996 -- Terrorist Acts -- Eastern United States, 2001 -- Kuwait and the Persian Gulf, 1991 -- Washington, D.C., 2001 -- New York City, 1993 -- New York City, 2001 -- Toxicity -- Industrial -- Bhopal, India, 1984 -- Seveso, Italy, 1976 -- Minamata, Japan, 1956 -- Basel, Switzerland, 1986 -- Toxicity -- residential -- Love Canal, New York, 1978 -- Iraq, 1971 -- London, England, 1952 |
Summary |
This reference resource describes both the scientific background & the economic & social issues that resulted from environmental disasters where human activity was the main cause |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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In English |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Case studies
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Disasters -- Case studies
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Environmental disasters -- Case studies
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Environmental disasters
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Disasters
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on
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Milieurampen.
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Case studies
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Form |
Electronic book
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