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Program

Research Programs: Summer Stipends

Period of Performance

6/1/1977 - 7/31/1977

Funding Totals

$2,500.00 (approved)
$2,500.00 (awarded)

Industry, Society, and the Environment

FAIN: FT-13296-77

Jurg K. Siegenthaler
American University (Washington, DC 20016-8200)

To examine the relationship between industry-induced environmental transformations and society in the Scranton, Pennsylvania, region for the period 1850-1950. This will be compared with the previously analyzed European cases. The research examines (1) the uneven impacts of industry-induced environmental transformations on different groups of the population and subsequent social changes; (2) the changing individual and social valuations of environmental transformations; and (3) the policy dimension in issues of environmental deterioration.