ISBN:
0-415-91771-9
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978-0-415-91771-1
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0-415-91770-0
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978-0-415-91770-4
Language:
English
Pages:
xxii, 336 Seiten
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Illustrationen, Karten
Keywords:
USA Nevada
;
Indianer, USA
;
Mescalero
;
Indianerreservation
;
Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt
;
Umweltbelastung
;
Beziehungen Indigenes Volk-Regierung
Abstract:
Culture, power, and politics collide in the controversial and timely book. Valerie Kuletz documents the buildup of nuclear waste in toxic dumps around the country and reveals the frightening consequences of our past, present, and furure nuclear waste policies, particularly for the Western regions of the United States. The Tainted Desert documents the controversies surrouding the Yucca Mountain project - America's first large-scale nationak high-level nuclear waste site, built at a cost of billions of taxpayer dollars and located in Nevada less than 100 miles from Las Vegas. The Tainted Desert focuses on issues of military secrecy, environmental racism, and the hazards to our health and safety of living with nuclear waste. (Umschlagtext)
Description / Table of Contents:
List of illustrations, maps -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Mapping the nuclear landscape -- Power, presentation and cultural politics at Yucca Mountain -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 319-329
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Dissertation, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1996 unter dem Titel Geographies of sacrifice - nuclear landscapes and their social consequences: the U.S. inter-desert region, 1940-1996
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