Development, Governance and Environment in South Asia - A Focus on Bangladesh (Hardcover, 1999 ed.)

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.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 1999
First published:	1999
Editors:	Mohammad Alauddin • Samiul Hasan
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 32mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards / With dust jacket
Pages:	371
Edition:	1999 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-0-312-21997-0
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Development economics
LSN:	0-312-21997-0
Barcode:	9780312219970

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