Recounts the devastating personal and communal effects of the 1972 Buffalo Creek, West Virginia, disaster on a tightly knit Appalachian community suddenly uprooted and dispersed. Bibliogs

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Looks at the trauma caused by chemical disasters, such as a mercury spill, underground gasoline leakage, Three Mile Island, and nuclear waste dumps, and describes how communities have attempted to respond

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