Energy metropolis : an environmental history of Houston and the Gulf Coast / edited by Martin V. Melosi and Joseph A. Pratt.
2007
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Ebrary electronic monographs.
Title
Energy metropolis : an environmental history of Houston and the Gulf Coast / edited by Martin V. Melosi and Joseph A. Pratt.
Imprint
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2007]
Copyright
©2007.
Description
1 online resource (353 pages) : illustrations.
Series
History of the urban environment.
Formatted Contents Note
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.
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.
Local Note
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2014. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-327) and index.
Source of Description
Description based on print version record.
Available in Other Form
Print version: Energy metropolis : an environmental history of Houston and the Gulf Coast. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2007] vii, 344 pages ; 24 cm History of the urban environment
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Language
English
ISBN
9780822973249 e-book
9780822943358 (alkaline paper)
0822943352 (alkaline paper)
9780822959632 (paperback) (alkaline paper)
0822959631 (paperback) (alkaline paper)
9780822943358 (alkaline paper)
0822943352 (alkaline paper)
9780822959632 (paperback) (alkaline paper)
0822959631 (paperback) (alkaline paper)
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