Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, ©2007.

Description:

vii, 344 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Series:

History of the urban environment

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-327) and index.
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.

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ISBN:

9780822943358 (alk. paper)
0822943352 (alk. paper)
9780822959632 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0822959631 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Ecology.
Umwelt
Golfküste
Metropolregion
Houston (Tex.) Environmental conditions History.
Gulf Coast (Tex.) Environmental conditions History.
Mexique, Côte du golfe du (Tex.) Conditions environnementales Histoire.
Texas Gulf Coast.
Texas Houston.
Houston, Tex.
Houston, Tex. Region
USA
Houston <Tex., Region>

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Melosi, Martin V., 1947-
Pratt, Joseph A.
History of the urban environment.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 254953
Call No.: BIB 185029
Status: Available