'Pollution and public concern. The responses of the chemical industry in Britain in the emerging environmental issues, 1860-1901' in E Homburg et al (eds), The Chemical Industry in Europe, 1850-1914. Industrial growth, pollution and professionalization
Details:
- Author(s) Wilmot, Sarah
- Publication type Chapter
- Year published 1998
- Pages pp121-47
- Publisher Kluwer Academic
- Place Published London
Topics:
- Name Environmental issues
- Name Government intervention exc legislation & regulation
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Charts the progress of environmental concern and legislation re industrial pollution, 1860-1901, with sections: 1] 'Public pressure on the chemical industry' - re air and river pollution; 2] 'Arguments against environmental regulation for the chemical industry'; 3] 'Chemical pollution and public health controversies'; 4] 'Reactions of the chemical industry to the implementation of regulation' - air pollution and river pollution; 5] 'Organisations to combat public pressure'; 6] 'Environmental initiatives in the chemical industry'