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LEADER: 02821cam a2200361 a 4500
001 2007006107
003 DLC
005 20080131185742.0
008 070212s2007 paua b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2007006107
020 $a9780822943358 (alk. paper)
020 $a0822943352 (alk. paper)
020 $a9780822959632 (pbk. : alk. paper)
020 $a0822959631 (pbk. : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocm85162017
035 $a(OCoLC)85162017
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043 $an-us-tx
050 00 $aGE155.T4$bE54 2007
082 00 $a363.7009764/1411$222
245 00 $aEnergy metropolis :$ban environmental history of Houston and the Gulf Coast /$cedited by Martin V. Melosi and Joseph A. Pratt.
260 $aPittsburgh, Pa. :$bUniversity of Pittsburgh Press,$cc2007.
300 $avii, 344 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
490 0 $aHistory of the urban environment
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 275-327) and index.
505 0 $aEnergy 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.
651 0 $aHouston (Tex.)$xEnvironmental conditions$xHistory.
651 0 $aGulf Coast (Tex.)$xEnvironmental conditions$xHistory.
700 1 $aMelosi, Martin V.,$d1947-
700 1 $aPratt, Joseph A.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0711/2007006107.html
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0708/2007006107-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0708/2007006107-d.html