Presentation
Losing Ground: Urban Sacrifice Zones in the Mississippi River Basin
103rd ACSA Annual Meeting
(2015)
Abstract
The term sacrifice zone derives from the study of traditional agricultural practices where cultivators deliberately degraded one area to increase productivity in another area. The term has been appropriated into political and economic discourse and used to describe areas degraded by modern industrial societies in the pursuit of economic gain.
Disciplines
Publication Date
2015
Location
Toronto, ON, Canada
Citation Information
Shelby Elizabeth Doyle. "Losing Ground: Urban Sacrifice Zones in the Mississippi River Basin" 103rd ACSA Annual Meeting (2015) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/shelby-doyle/4/