Smoky city: a history of air pollution in Newcastle, NSW

Title: Smoky city: a history of air pollution in Newcastle, NSW
Creator: Cushing, Nancy; Bridgman, Howard
Relation: http://hunterpress.bigcartel.com/product/smoky-city-a-history-of-air-pollution-in-newcastle-nsw
Publisher: Hunter Press
Resource Type: book
Date: 2015
Description: For many years the reputation of Newcastle, NSW, was that of a smoky industrial city. Novocastrians who remember when the BHP dominated the skyline recall the acrid haze that regularly enveloped the city and, in more recent times, fine black coal dust has affected the lives of residents. Smoky City tells the story of how Newcastle came to be the polluted industrial place it was. Combining both historic and scientific approaches the book describes the development of industry, transport, housing and other factors that fouled the air and the impact this had on people's lives. We also meet the Novocastrians whose ground-breaking campaigns to clean up the city led to dramatically cleaner air for Newcastle.
Subject: Newcastle; industry; pollution; environmental history
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1310935
Identifier: uon:22122
Identifier: ISBN:9780992488529
Language: eng