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Energy metropolis : an environmental history of Houston and the Gulf Coast / / edited by Martin V. Melosi and Joseph A. Pratt



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Titolo: Energy metropolis : an environmental history of Houston and the Gulf Coast / / edited by Martin V. Melosi and Joseph A. Pratt Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , [2007]
©2007
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (353 pages) : illustrations
Disciplina: 363.7009764/1411
Soggetto geografico: Houston (Tex.) Environmental conditions History
Gulf Coast (Tex.) Environmental conditions History
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Persona (resp. second.): MelosiMartin V. <1947->
PrattJoseph A.
Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-327) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Energy and environment -- A mixed blessing: energy, economic growth, and Houston's environment / Joseph A. Pratt -- The Houston ship channel and the changing landscape of industrial pollution / Hugh S. Gorman -- "Bad science" : the politics of ozone air pollution in Houston / Robert Fisher -- "The air-conditioning capital of the world" : Houston and climate control / Robert S. Thompson -- Growth of the metropolitan region -- Houston's public sinks : sanitary services from local concerns to regional challenges / Martin V. Melosi -- Superhighway deluxe : Houston's Gulf freeway / Tom Watson McKinney -- Urban sprawl and the piney woods : deforestation in the San Jacinto watershed / Diane C. Bates -- A tale of two Texas cities : Houston, the industrial metropolis, and Galveston, the island getaway / William Barnett -- Environmental activism at the grassroots -- Dumping on Houston's black neighborhoods / Robert D. Bullard -- The gunfighters of Northwood Manor : how history debunks myths of the environmental justice movement -- Elizabeth D. Blum -- "To combine many and varied forces" : the hope of Houston's environmental activism, 1923-1999 / Teresa Tomkins-Walsh -- Voices of discord : the effects of a grassroots environmental movement at the brio superfund site / Kimberly A. Youngblood -- Notes.
Titolo autorizzato: Energy metropolis  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8229-7324-3
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910458481803321
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Serie: History of the urban environment.