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No global :

0745322115

1281750352

1849642303

9780745322117

9781281750358

9781849642309

0745322107

b763698

No global :

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the people of Ireland versus the multinationals /

Robert Allen.

Sterling, Va. :

Pluto Press,

©2004.

1 online resource (viii, 280 pages)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 268-269) and index.

The politics of pollution -- Ballydine: tears in the valley -- Killeagh: power and effluent -- Cork: poison harbour -- Toxic Ireland: polluted -- Carndonagh: anxiety among the women -- Askeaton: in the shadow of the dragon.

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Ireland's economy has seen phenomenal growth since the 1990s, as a result of an earlier decision by the state to chase foreign investment, largely from US corporates. As a result, manufacturers of raw chemicals, pharmaceuticals and highly dangerous substances came to Ireland, where they could make toxic products free from the strict controls imposed by other nations. Robert Allen's book reveals the consequences to human health and the environment of the Irish state's love affair with the multinational chemical industry. The cost to Irish society was a series of ecological and social outrages, starting in the 1970s and continuing into the 2000s. No Global is a lesson for countries who seek to encourage multinationals at the expense of the health of their population and the delicate nature of their ecosystems. It is also a heart-warming record of the successful campaigns fought by local people to protect themselves and their environment from polluting industry.

No global.

9780745322117

Chemical industry-- Environmental aspects-- Ireland.

Environmental protection-- Ireland-- Citizen participation.

International business enterprises-- Ireland.

Pollution-- Ireland.

Chemical industry-- Environmental aspects.

Chemische Industrie

Environmental protection-- Citizen participation.

International business enterprises.

Multinationales Unternehmen

POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Environmental Policy.

Pollution.

Protestbewegung

SCIENCE-- Environmental Science (see also Chemistry-- Environmental)

Umweltverschmutzung

Ireland.

Irland

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POL-- 044000

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SCI-- 026000

Allen, Robert,1956-

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