Effluent America: Cities, Industry, Energy, and the EnvironmentGarbage, wastewater, hazardous waste: these are the lenses through which Melosi views nineteenth- and twentieth-century America. In broad overviews and specific case studies, Melosi treats the relationship between industrial expansion and urban growth from an ecological perspective. |
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Effluent America: Cities, Industry, Energy, and the Environment Martin V. Melosi No preview available - 2001 |
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American City Annual Report Bayou Central place theory Chicago city building City of Houston city’s civic coal collection and disposal Colten conservation disease dumping early twentieth centuries ecology economic energy envi Environmental History environmental justice environmental movement environmental problems Environmental Racism environmental sanitation especially factories federal garbage crisis groups hazardous waste historians incineration industrial cities Industrial Wastes infrastructure issues Joel late nineteenth Love Canal major Melosi ment Municipal Solid Waste natural neighborhoods NIMBY nineteenth century nuisance law organic percent perspective political pollution problems population produced programs Progressive Era protection Public Health recycling refuse role ronmental sanitary engineers sanitary landfills sanitary services sewage sewer sewerage smoke social Solid Waste Stream Pollution suburbs Tarr technical systems theory tion toxic United urban ecology urban environment urban growth Urban History Waste Disposal Waste Management waste problem water pollution water supply York