Price of Nuclear Power - Uranium Communities and Environmental Justice

Informationen zum Autor STEPHANIE A. MALIN is an assistant professor of sociology and a faculty affiliate with the Center for Disaster and Risk Analysis at Colorado State University. Klappentext Rising fossil fuel prices and concerns about greenhouse gas emissions are fostering a nuclear power renaissance and a revitalized uranium mining industry across the American West. Environmental sociologist Stephanie Malin offers an on-the-ground portrait of several uranium communities caught between the harmful legacy of previous mining booms and the potential promise of new economic development. Zusammenfassung Rising fossil fuel prices and concerns about greenhouse gas emissions are fostering a nuclear power renaissance and a revitalized uranium mining industry across the American West. Environmental sociologist Stephanie Malin offers an on-the-ground portrait of several uranium communities caught between the harmful legacy of previous mining booms and the potential promise of new economic development.

Product details

• Authors: Stephanie A. Malin
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.05.2015
• EAN: 9780813569796
• ISBN: 978-0-8135-6979-6
• No. of pages: 238
• Series: Nature, Society, and Culture
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology