Development, Governance and Environment in South Asia: A Focus on Bangladesh - Hardcover

 
9780312219970: Development, Governance and Environment in South Asia: A Focus on Bangladesh
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0312219970 ISBN 13: 9780312219970
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan, 1999

Inhaltsangabe

The worst chemical disaster ever could be happening right now. In India and Bangladesh between forty and eighty million people are at risk of consuming too much arsenic from well water that might have already caused one hundred thousand cancer cases and thousands of deaths. Many millions elsewhere in South-East Asia and South America may soon suffer a similar fate. Venomous Earth is the story of this tragedy: the geology, the biology, the politics and the history. It starts in Ancient Greece, touches down in today's North America and takes in William Morris, alchemy, farming, medicine, mining and a cosmetic that killed two popes.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Andrew Meharg is Professor of Biogeochemistry at the University of Aberdeen where he studies and teaches on the impact of pollutants on the environment. His particular interest is how arsenic interacts with plants, animals and humans. In this capacity he has advised national and international government and aid bodies. Andrew has published numerous academic papers, book chapters and popular press articles on his research.

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Verlag
Palgrave Macmillan
Erscheinungsdatum
1999
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0312219970
ISBN 13 
9780312219970
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
395
Herausgeber
Alauddin Mohammad, Hasan Samiul
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Dt. Universitätsverlag
buchhandel-buch@springer.com

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Wiesbaden
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Deutschland

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