Effluent America : cities, industry, energy, and the environment /
What's the difference between an anthill and a city? Protection from weather and predators, living and working quarters, transportation networks, food storage capability - all these they hold in common. And while there are obvious differences between humans and ants, both exist in the same spac...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | anglès |
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Pittsburgh :
University of Pittsburgh Press
©2001.
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| Col·lecció: | University of Pittsburgh Press Digital Editions.
University of Pittsburgh Digital Collections. |
| Accés en línia: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.15238530 |
Taula de continguts:
- Introduction
- pt. 1. Pollution in industrial America. Environmental crisis in the city : the relationship between industrialization and urban pollution
- Pollution and the emergence of industrial America
- Down in the dumps : Is there a garbage crisis in America?
- Hazardous waste and environmental liability: a historical perspective
- pt. 2. Urban growth and community services. The place of the city in environmental history
- Cities, technical systems, and the environment
- Sanitary services and decision making in Houston
- Community and the growth of Houston
- pt. 3. Urban environmental reform. Environmental reform in the industrial cities : the civic response to pollution in the progressive era
- Sanitary engineering in American cities: changing roles from the age of miasmas to the age of ecology
- Environmental justice, political agenda setting, and the myths of history.