An open pit visible from the moon : the Wilderness Act and the fight to protect Miners Ridge and the public interest / Adam M. Sowards

English

Norman : University of Oklahoma Press [2020], 2020

xiii, 236 Seiten : Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten

Includes bibliographical references and index

978-0-8061-6501-1 hardcover

978-0-8061-9020-4 paperback

9780806190204

*USA / Kennecott Copper Corporation <New York, NY> / Kupferbergbau / Ökologische Bewegung / Öffentliches Interesse

*United States -- Wilderness Act ; Kennecott Copper Corporation ; Strip-mining -- Environmental aspects -- Washington (State) -- Glacier Peak Wilderness ; Environmentalism -- Political aspects -- United States ; Copper mines and mining -- Environmental aspects -- Washington (State) -- Glacier Peak Wilderness ; Public interest -- United States ; Glacier Peak Wilderness (Wash.) -- Environmental conditions

Library of Congress Classification: GE197

Dewey Decimal Classification: 333.78/216097977

Regensburger Verbund-Klassifikation: MG 70915: MA-ML Politologie / MG-MI Politische Systeme einzelner Länder / Umwelt- und Energiepolitik

"Combines rigorous analysis and deft storytelling of the struggle to define the contours of the Wilderness Act when the Kennecott Copper Corporation announced its plan to develop an open-pit mine in the Glacier Peak Wilderness Area"--

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