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      Were Health Resorts Bad for your Health? Coastal Pollution Control Policy in England, 1945-76

      Environment and History
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          A case study of beach pollution illustrates economic and political influences that have shaped environmental policy in Britain. The need to provide irrefutable evidence that there was a risk to public health, before tangible steps were taken to control pollution, was a characteristic feature of official policy. The consequent deterioration of the holiday industry's prime asset - the marine environment - is traced from the early nineteenth century. The postwar period is selected for detailed study. The paper will explore why, despite the growth of opposition to the pumping of raw sewage into the sea, this traditional method of waste disposal continued to be relied upon until the recent past.

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          Journal
          Environment and History
          environ hist camb
          White Horse Press
          0967-3407
          February 01 1999
          February 01 1999
          : 5
          : 1
          : 53-73
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          10.3197/096734099779568452
          600ac344-484f-4a2b-9bf4-6cde9a5188c5
          © 1999
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