Social and cultural impacts of mercury pollution on Aboriginal peoples in Canada

Water, Air, and Soil Pollution

Volumn 97, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 85-90

  Wheatley, Margaret A ^a  

^a Eco Anth Consulting   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL MERCURY POLLUTION;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; HAZARDOUS MATERIALS; HEALTH HAZARDS; MERCURY (METAL);

POLLUTION;

MERCURY;

CULTURAL IMPACT; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; MERCURY; MERCURY POLLUTION; POLLUTION PROBLEM; SOCIAL IMPACT;

ABORIGINE; CANADA; CONFERENCE PAPER; CULTURAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMAN; SOCIAL ASPECT; WATER CONTAMINATION;

CANADA;

EID: 0031171061     PISSN: 00496979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1018315329313     Document Type: Conference Paper

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