Sacrifice zone
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A sacrifice zone or sacrifice area is a geographic area that has been permanently changed by heavy environmental alterations or economic disinvestment, often through locally unwanted land use. Comment
A sacrifice zone where iron hydroxide precipitate from coal mining has damaged a stream and surrounding area
Pollution at Maracaibo Lake
Locally unwanted land use
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In land-use planning, a locally unwanted land use is a facility, project, or other form of land use opposed by a local community because of perceived negative externalities associated with it. These c
Sacrifice zone
…area that has been permanently changed by heavy environmental alterations (usually to a negative degree) or economic disinvestment, often through locally unwanted land use (LULU). Commentators including Chris Hedges, Joe Sacco, and Steve Lerner have argued that corporate business practices contribute to producing sacrifice…
Landfills are common LULUs.
Love Canal residents discuss revitalizing their contaminated neighborhood with Administrator Lee Thomas in September 1985.