Trans-Alaskan Pipeline Controversy: Technology, Conservation, and the Frontier

by Peter Coates

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Considers the opposition to the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS) from conservationists and their ideologies. Discusses from a historical view its relationship to earlier engineering projects and technological innovations in Alaska and the debates that accompanied them.

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Peter Coates is Reader in American and Environmental History in the Department of Historical Studies, University of Bristol.

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Nonfiction, Economics, History, Politics and Government
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333.8Society, government, & cultureEconomicsEconomics of land and energySubsurface resources - nonrenewable
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TD195 .P4 .C63TechnologyEnvironmental technology. Sanitary engineeringEnvironmental technology. Sanitary engineeringEnvironmental effects of industries and plants
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