Death of the Chesapeake (eBook)

A History of the Military's Role in Polluting the Bay

Richard Albright (Autor)

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2013 | 1. Auflage
232 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
9781118756515 (ISBN)

Infos

This unique book focuses attention on the failure of current efforts to cleanup the Chesapeake Bay and suggests an approach often used in cleaning up environmentally damaged sites

While military munitions sources contribute significantly to the pollution and degradation of Chesapeake Bay, they have been completely overlooked in many of the efforts to restore the Bay. Death of the Chesapeake explores this important aspect of the nation's environmental health. The book also recognizes for the first time that efforts to restore the Bay have failed because of the violation of a fundamental precept of environmental cleanup; that is, to sample the site and see what's there. The Bay itself has never been sampled.

Thus, this book presents a view of the environmental condition of Chesapeake Bay that is totally unique. It covers a part of the history of the Bay that is not widely known, including how the Bay was formed. It presents a mixture of science, military history, and novel solutions to the Bay's degradation. In so doing, the author examines the military use of the Bay and reveals the extent that munitions dumpsites containing nitrogen and phosphorus as well as chemical warfare material are affecting the environment. The book concludes with the author's own cleanup plan, which, if implemented, would go a long way toward restoring health to the Bay. The book is supplemented with many photographs and maps.

Autor

Richard D. Albright, a chemical weapons and ordnance expert, has a bachelor's from the University of Michigan, a master of science in environmental health from George Washington University and doctorates from Wayne State and an online university. A former Army officer, he wrote a science bestseller, Cleanup of Chemical and Explosive Munitions, now in its second edition; has testified before Congress, state government, and in federal courts on environmental issues. His work has been featured in Washingtonian magazine, The Washington Post, The News-Herald (Northeast Ohio), The Press of Atlantic City, The New York Times and The Kansas City Star. He has worked for 20 years to restore the Chesapeake Bay and sailed the Bay for 40 years. He won the Cafritz prize for his work cleaning up a chemical weapons site.

Rezensionen

"Summing Up: Recommended. Academic and large public
library collections in the Chesapeake Bay area."
(Choice, 1 March 2014)

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.5.2013
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Ökotoxikologie, Umweltverschmutzung • Chemie • Chemistry • Ecotoxicology & Pollution Science • Environmental Studies • Explosives and Propellants • Explosiv- und Treibstoffe • Geschichte • History • Militärgeschichte • Militärgeschichte • military history • Ökotoxikologie, Umweltverschmutzung • Umweltforschung
• ISBN-13: 9781118756515 / 9781118756515