Uneasy Alchemy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Uneasy Alchemy write by Barbara L. Allen. This book was released on 2003. Uneasy Alchemy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How coalitions of citizens and experts have been effective in promoting environmental justice in Louisiana's Chemical Corridor.
Residues
Residues - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Residues write by Soraya Boudia. This book was released on 2021-12-31. Residues available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Residues properties -- Legacy -- Accretion -- Apprehension -- Residual materialism.
Community-driven Regulation
Community-driven Regulation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Community-driven Regulation write by Dara O'Rourke. This book was released on 2004. Community-driven Regulation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Case studies of community action in Vietnam form the basis for a new policy model for pollution control in developing countries.
The Place with No Edge
The Place with No Edge - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Place with No Edge write by Adam Mandelman. This book was released on 2020-04-08. The Place with No Edge available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In The Place with No Edge, Adam Mandelman follows three centuries of human efforts to inhabit and control the lower Mississippi River delta, the vast watery flatlands spreading across much of southern Louisiana. He finds that people’s use of technology to tame unruly nature in the region has produced interdependence with—rather than independence from—the environment. Created over millennia by deposits of silt and sand, the Mississippi River delta is one of the most dynamic landscapes in North America. From the eighteenth-century establishment of the first French fort below New Orleans to the creation of Louisiana’s Coastal Master Plan in the 2000s, people have attempted to harness and master this landscape through technology. Mandelman examines six specific interventions employed in the delta over time: levees, rice flumes, pullboats, geophysical surveys, dredgers, and petroleum cracking. He demonstrates that even as people seemed to gain control over the environment, they grew more deeply intertwined with—and vulnerable to—it. The greatest folly, Mandelman argues, is to believe that technology affords mastery. Environmental catastrophes of coastal land loss and petrochemical pollution may appear to be disconnected, but both emerged from the same fantasy of harnessing nature to technology. Similarly, the levee system’s failures and the subsequent deluge after Hurricane Katrina owe as much to centuries of human entanglement with the delta as to global warming’s rising seas and strengthening storms. The Place with No Edge advocates for a deeper understanding of humans’ relationship with nature. It provides compelling evidence that altering the environment—whether to make it habitable, profitable, or navigable —inevitably brings a response, sometimes with unanticipated consequences. Mandelman encourages a mindfulness of the ways that our inventions engage with nature and a willingness to intervene in responsible, respectful ways.
Installing Automobility
Installing Automobility - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Installing Automobility write by Govind Gopakumar. This book was released on 2020-04-07. Installing Automobility available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An examination of the process of prioritizing private motorized transportation in Bengaluru, a rapidly growing megacity of the Global South. Automobiles and their associated infrastructures, deeply embedded in Western cities, have become a rapidly growing presence in the mega-cities of the Global South. Streets once crowded with pedestrians, pushcarts, vendors, and bicyclists are now choked with motor vehicles, many of them private automobiles. In this book, Govind Gopakumar examines this shift, analyzing the phenomenon of automobility in Bengaluru (formerly known as Bangalore), a rapidly growing city of about ten million people in southern India. He finds that the advent of automobility in Bengaluru has privileged the mobility needs of the elite while marginalizing those of the rest of the population. Gopakumar connects Bengaluru's burgeoning automobility to the city's history and to the spatial, technological, and social interventions of a variety of urban actors. Automobility becomes a juggernaut, threatening to reorder the city to enhance automotive travel. He discusses the evolution of congestion and urban change in Bengaluru; the “regimes of congestion” that emerge to address the issue; an “infrastructurescape” that shapes the mobile behavior of all residents but is largely governed by the privileged; and the enfranchisement of an “automotive citizenship” (and the disenfranchisement of non-automobile-using publics). Gopakumar also finds that automobility in Bengaluru faces ongoing challenges from such diverse sources as waste flows, popular religiosity, and political leadership. These challenges, however, introduce messiness without upsetting automobility. He therefore calls for efforts to displace automobility that are grounded in reordering the mobility regime, relandscaping the city and its infrastructures, and reclaiming streets for other uses.
