This borrowed earth : lessons from the fifteen worst environmental disasters around the world / Robert Emmet Hernan ; foreword by Bill McKibben ; preface by Graham Nash.

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

x, 235 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Minamata, Japan, 1950s -- London, England, 1952 -- Windscale, England, 1957 -- Seveso, Italy, 1976 -- Love Canal, New York, 1978 -- Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania, 1979 -- Times Beach, Missouri, 1982 -- Bhopal, India, 1984 -- Chernobyl, Ukraine, 1986 -- Rhine River, Switzerland, 1986 -- Prince William Sound, Alaska, 1989 -- Oil spills and fires of Kuwait, 1991 -- Dassen and Robben Islands, South Africa, 2000 -- Brazilian rainforest -- Global climate change.

Includes bibliographical references and index.