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The business of waste : Great Britain and Germany, 1945 to the present /

"The advent of consumer societies in the United Kingdom and West Germany after 1945 led to the mass "production" of garbage. This book compares the social, cultural, and economic fallout of the growing volume and changing composition of waste in the two countries from 1945 to the pres...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stokes, Raymond G.
Otros Autores: Köster, Roman, 1975-, Sambrook, Stephen C.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Establishing (and reestablishing) an industry : waste services in the United Kingdom and Germany from the late nineteenth century to the 1950s
  • Rationalization measures
  • Salvage and the industry
  • The waste flood
  • Politicizing household waste : from public helath nuisance to environmental pollutant
  • Coping with the crisis
  • Framing waste : measurement, regulation, and legislation in the 1980s
  • The waste management indsutry since 1990
  • summary, conclusions, and reflectsions.