Southern pollution permissiveness: Another regional myth?

Southeastern Geographer

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 75-96

  Colten, Craig E ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental history; Pollution; Rivers

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING WORLD; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY; LITERATURE REVIEW; RIVER POLLUTION; WATER POLLUTION;

EID: 46649104472     PISSN: 0038366X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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