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A Town Called Asbestos: Environmental Contamination, Health, and Resilience in a Resource Community (Nature | History | Society) - Hardcover
For decades, manufacturers from around the world relied on asbestos from the town of Asbestos, Quebec, to produce fire-retardant products. Then, over time, people learned about the mineral's devastating effects on human health. Dependent on this deadly industry for their community's survival, the residents of Asbestos developed a unique, place-based understanding of their local environment; the risks they faced living next to the giant opencast mine; and their place within the global resource trade. This book unearths the local-global tensions that defined Asbestos's proud and painful history to reveal the challenges similar resource communities have faced-and continue to face today.
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A mining town’s proud and painful history is unearthed to reveal the challenges a resource community faced in a globalized world.
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Jessica van Horssen is senior researcher in the Department of History and Archaeology at the University of Chester, England.
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- Publication date2016
- ISBN 10 0774828412
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