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
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| 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 | |
| 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 |
| ISBN: | 0-8229-7324-3 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910791164203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
History of the urban environment.