Energy capitals : local impact, global influence / / edited by Joseph A. Pratt, Martin V. Melosi, and Kathleen A. Brosnan |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (289 pages) |
Disciplina | 333.8/2 |
Collana | History of the Urban Environment |
Soggetto topico |
Fossil fuels
Power resources - Environmental aspects |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-8229-7922-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910458041403321 |
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , 2014 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Energy capitals : local impact, global influence / / edited by Joseph A. Pratt, Martin V. Melosi, and Kathleen A. Brosnan |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (289 pages) |
Disciplina | 333.8/2 |
Collana | History of the Urban Environment |
Soggetto topico |
Fossil fuels
Power resources - Environmental aspects |
ISBN | 0-8229-7922-5 |
Classificazione | TEC031030HIS037000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790911203321 |
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , 2014 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Energy capitals : local impact, global influence / / edited by Joseph A. Pratt, Martin V. Melosi, and Kathleen A. Brosnan |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (289 pages) |
Disciplina | 333.8/2 |
Collana | History of the Urban Environment |
Soggetto topico |
Fossil fuels
Power resources - Environmental aspects |
ISBN | 0-8229-7922-5 |
Classificazione | TEC031030HIS037000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910825488003321 |
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , 2014 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Energy metropolis : an environmental history of Houston and the Gulf Coast / / edited by Martin V. Melosi and Joseph A. Pratt |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , [2007] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (353 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 363.7009764/1411 |
Collana | History of the urban environment |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-8229-7324-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910458481803321 |
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , [2007] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Energy metropolis : an environmental history of Houston and the Gulf Coast / / edited by Martin V. Melosi and Joseph A. Pratt |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , [2007] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (353 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 363.7009764/1411 |
Collana | History of the urban environment |
ISBN | 0-8229-7324-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910791164203321 |
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , [2007] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Energy metropolis : an environmental history of Houston and the Gulf Coast / / edited by Martin V. Melosi and Joseph A. Pratt |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , [2007] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (353 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 363.7009764/1411 |
Collana | History of the urban environment |
ISBN | 0-8229-7324-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910807611103321 |
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , [2007] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Environment / / Martin Melosi, volume editor ; designed by Richard Hendel |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chapel Hill, North Carolina : , : University of North Carolina Press, , 2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (314 p.) |
Disciplina | 333.950975 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
MelosiMartin V. <1947->
HendelRichard |
Collana | New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture |
Soggetto topico | Environmental policy - Southern States |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-4696-1661-0
1-4696-1660-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; General Introduction; Introduction; ENVIRONMENT; Animals; Aquatic Life, Freshwater; Birds and Birding; Climate and Weather; Coastal Marshes; Dams; Endangered Species; Energy Use and Development; Environmental Justice; Environmental Movements; Flood Control and Drainage; Forests; Gardens and Gardening; Indians and the Environment; Insects; Invasive and Alien Species (Floral and Faunal); Land Use; Marine Environment, Fish and Fisheries; Natural Disasters; Natural Resources; Naturalists; Parks and Recreation Areas; Plants; Plant Uses; Pollution; Reclamation and Irrigation
Rivers and LakesRoads and Trails; Shellfish; Soil and Soil Conservation; Streams and Steamboats; Swamps; Tennessee Valley Authority; Trees; Water Use; Wetlands; Air-Conditioning; Alligators and Crocodiles; Anderson, Walter Inglis; Appalachian Coal Region; Appalachian Mountains; Armadillo; Assateague Island National Seashore; Atchafalaya Basin Swamp; Audubon, John James; Azaleas; Bartram, William; Big Bend National Park; Big Thicket; Biscayne National Park; Blue Ridge Mountains; Cancer Alley (Louisiana); Cape Lookout National Seashore; Catfish; Chesapeake Bay Cumberland Island and Little Cumberland IslandCypress; Dogwood, Flowering; Dry Tortugas; Florida Everglades; Florida Keys; Florida Panther; Galveston Bay; Great Smoky Mountains; Guadalupe Mountains National Park; Homer, Winslow; Hot Springs National Park; Ivory-Billed Woodpecker; Kudzu; Lightwood; Live Oak; Magnolia; Mammoth Cave National Park; Mississippi River; Mockingbird; Muhammad, Benjamin Franklin Chavis; Muir, John; Natchez Trace; Nuclear Pollution; Odum, Eugene P.; Offshore Oil Industry; Oil Pollution; Okefenokee Swamp; Opossum ("Possum"); Outer Banks; Ozarks Padre Island National SeashorePalm Trees; Persimmon; Red River Expedition; Rio Grande; Sassafras; Shenandoah Valley; Spanish Moss; Tellico Dam; Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway; Warren County, N.C.; Wilson Dam; Index of Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910464703403321 |
Chapel Hill, North Carolina : , : University of North Carolina Press, , 2007 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Environment [[electronic resource] /] / Martin Melosi, volume editor ; designed by Richard Hendel |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chapel Hill, North Carolina : , : University of North Carolina Press, , 2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (314 p.) |
Disciplina | 333.950975 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
MelosiMartin V. <1947->
HendelRichard |
Collana | New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture |
Soggetto topico | Environmental policy - Southern States |
ISBN |
1-4696-1661-0
1-4696-1660-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; General Introduction; Introduction; ENVIRONMENT; Animals; Aquatic Life, Freshwater; Birds and Birding; Climate and Weather; Coastal Marshes; Dams; Endangered Species; Energy Use and Development; Environmental Justice; Environmental Movements; Flood Control and Drainage; Forests; Gardens and Gardening; Indians and the Environment; Insects; Invasive and Alien Species (Floral and Faunal); Land Use; Marine Environment, Fish and Fisheries; Natural Disasters; Natural Resources; Naturalists; Parks and Recreation Areas; Plants; Plant Uses; Pollution; Reclamation and Irrigation
Rivers and LakesRoads and Trails; Shellfish; Soil and Soil Conservation; Streams and Steamboats; Swamps; Tennessee Valley Authority; Trees; Water Use; Wetlands; Air-Conditioning; Alligators and Crocodiles; Anderson, Walter Inglis; Appalachian Coal Region; Appalachian Mountains; Armadillo; Assateague Island National Seashore; Atchafalaya Basin Swamp; Audubon, John James; Azaleas; Bartram, William; Big Bend National Park; Big Thicket; Biscayne National Park; Blue Ridge Mountains; Cancer Alley (Louisiana); Cape Lookout National Seashore; Catfish; Chesapeake Bay Cumberland Island and Little Cumberland IslandCypress; Dogwood, Flowering; Dry Tortugas; Florida Everglades; Florida Keys; Florida Panther; Galveston Bay; Great Smoky Mountains; Guadalupe Mountains National Park; Homer, Winslow; Hot Springs National Park; Ivory-Billed Woodpecker; Kudzu; Lightwood; Live Oak; Magnolia; Mammoth Cave National Park; Mississippi River; Mockingbird; Muhammad, Benjamin Franklin Chavis; Muir, John; Natchez Trace; Nuclear Pollution; Odum, Eugene P.; Offshore Oil Industry; Oil Pollution; Okefenokee Swamp; Opossum ("Possum"); Outer Banks; Ozarks Padre Island National SeashorePalm Trees; Persimmon; Red River Expedition; Rio Grande; Sassafras; Shenandoah Valley; Spanish Moss; Tellico Dam; Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway; Warren County, N.C.; Wilson Dam; Index of Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910789201303321 |
Chapel Hill, North Carolina : , : University of North Carolina Press, , 2007 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Environment [[electronic resource] /] / Martin Melosi, volume editor ; designed by Richard Hendel |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chapel Hill, North Carolina : , : University of North Carolina Press, , 2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (314 p.) |
Disciplina | 333.950975 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
MelosiMartin V. <1947->
HendelRichard |
Collana | New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture |
Soggetto topico | Environmental policy - Southern States |
ISBN |
1-4696-1661-0
1-4696-1660-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; General Introduction; Introduction; ENVIRONMENT; Animals; Aquatic Life, Freshwater; Birds and Birding; Climate and Weather; Coastal Marshes; Dams; Endangered Species; Energy Use and Development; Environmental Justice; Environmental Movements; Flood Control and Drainage; Forests; Gardens and Gardening; Indians and the Environment; Insects; Invasive and Alien Species (Floral and Faunal); Land Use; Marine Environment, Fish and Fisheries; Natural Disasters; Natural Resources; Naturalists; Parks and Recreation Areas; Plants; Plant Uses; Pollution; Reclamation and Irrigation
Rivers and LakesRoads and Trails; Shellfish; Soil and Soil Conservation; Streams and Steamboats; Swamps; Tennessee Valley Authority; Trees; Water Use; Wetlands; Air-Conditioning; Alligators and Crocodiles; Anderson, Walter Inglis; Appalachian Coal Region; Appalachian Mountains; Armadillo; Assateague Island National Seashore; Atchafalaya Basin Swamp; Audubon, John James; Azaleas; Bartram, William; Big Bend National Park; Big Thicket; Biscayne National Park; Blue Ridge Mountains; Cancer Alley (Louisiana); Cape Lookout National Seashore; Catfish; Chesapeake Bay Cumberland Island and Little Cumberland IslandCypress; Dogwood, Flowering; Dry Tortugas; Florida Everglades; Florida Keys; Florida Panther; Galveston Bay; Great Smoky Mountains; Guadalupe Mountains National Park; Homer, Winslow; Hot Springs National Park; Ivory-Billed Woodpecker; Kudzu; Lightwood; Live Oak; Magnolia; Mammoth Cave National Park; Mississippi River; Mockingbird; Muhammad, Benjamin Franklin Chavis; Muir, John; Natchez Trace; Nuclear Pollution; Odum, Eugene P.; Offshore Oil Industry; Oil Pollution; Okefenokee Swamp; Opossum ("Possum"); Outer Banks; Ozarks Padre Island National SeashorePalm Trees; Persimmon; Red River Expedition; Rio Grande; Sassafras; Shenandoah Valley; Spanish Moss; Tellico Dam; Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway; Warren County, N.C.; Wilson Dam; Index of Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910816376903321 |
Chapel Hill, North Carolina : , : University of North Carolina Press, , 2007 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The history of large federal dams [[electronic resource] ] : planning, design, and construction in the era of big dams / / David P. Billington, Donald C. Jackson, Martin V. Melosi |
Autore | Billington David P |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Denver, Colo. : , : U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, , 2005 |
Descrizione fisica | xx, 605 pages : digital, PDF file |
Altri autori (Persone) |
JacksonDonald C <1953-> (Donald Conrad)
MelosiMartin V. <1947-> |
Soggetto topico |
Dams - United States - History
Dams - United States - Design and construction |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Altri titoli varianti | History of large federal dams |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910697455303321 |
Billington David P | ||
Denver, Colo. : , : U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, , 2005 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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