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Informationen zum Autor Joel B. Goldsteen is an associate professor of city and regional planning at the Institute of Urban Studies of the University of Texas at Arlington. Klappentext The problem of where to store waste has grabbed a lot of headlines, but people have been slow to realize that the environmental damage caused by storage sites is an even greater menace. This book makes the danger clear, as Joel Goldsteen offers the first comprehensive look at the selection and environmental impact of municipal and petrochemical waste storage sites along the Texas and Louisiana coasts. Goldsteen has distilled a large landfill-worth of data into a highly readable account of the creation and regulation of waste disposal sites, the health issues that surround them, and the human and natural factors that affect how safe or dangerous they become. Chapters that describe industrial development along the Gulf Coast and the concurrent challenges of wastewater treatment, solid waste management, and hazardous waste control are followed by in-depth descriptions of nine Texas and four Louisiana sites, all representative of problems far beyond the Texas-Louisiana coast. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acronyms and AbbreviationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Defining the Problem and Setting the Scene2. The Toxic Texas Coast3. Environmental Effects on Waste Disposal in Texas4. Texas Waste Sites5. The Lethal Louisiana Coast6. Environmental Factors in Louisiana Waste Disposal7. Louisiana Waste Sites8. Public Health and Industrial Land Use9. Regulatory Framework for Waste Sites10. Land-Use Planning for Environmental Protection: Waste Sites and the FutureNotesSelected ReferencesIndex
