Urban Ecologies on the Edge : Making Manila's Resource Frontier /

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Laguna Lake, the largest lake in the Philippines, supports the region's agriculture, power generation, and recreation. During heavy rains, water flows are diverted from nearby rivers to Laguna Lake, which acts as a temporary reservoir, flooding homes around the lake. In Urban Ecologies on the E...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Saguin, Kristian Karlo (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2022]
Temas:
Human ecology > Philippines.
Political ecology > Philippines > Manila > 20th century.
Political ecology > Philippines > Manila > 21st century.
NATURE / Ecology.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction. Frontiers of Urbanization
  • Part One. Making and Remaking a Frontier
  • One. Birth of a Convenient Frontier
  • Two. Enclosing a Commodity Frontier
  • Three. An Unruly Frontier
  • Part Two. The Work of Urban Metabolic Flows
  • Four. Chains of Urban Provisioning
  • Five. Biographies of Fish for the City
  • Six. Infrastructures of Risk
  • Epilogue: Mutable Frontiers, Metabolic Futures
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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