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Effluent America : cities, industry, energy, and the environment
- Title
- Effluent America : cities, industry, energy, and the environment / Martin V. Melosi.
- Author
- Melosi, Martin V., 1947-
- Publication
- Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, c2001.
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Details
- Description
- xiii, 325 p. : map; 25 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFD 02-1354
- ISBN
- 0822941597 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0822957663 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2001002660
- OCLC
- 46976768
- Author
- Melosi, Martin V., 1947-
- Title
- Effluent America : cities, industry, energy, and the environment / Martin V. Melosi.
- Imprint
- Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, c2001.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 02-1354