skip to main content
LOTERRE

LOTERRE

Search from vocabulary

Content language

| español français
Search help

Concept information

Preferred term

love canal disaster  

Definition(s)

  • The Love Canal disaster began in the 1950s and came to light in 1976 in Niagara Falls, New York, when the effects of toxic waste buried beneath the neighborhood were discovered. One of the most widely publicized toxic waste disasters, it has remained an important symbol of environmental mismanagement in the environmentalist, public health, and urban planning communities. [Source: Encyclopedia of White-Collar and Corporate Crime; Love Canal Disaster]

Broader concept(s)

Belongs to group

URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-VM6S47JQ-L

Download this concept: