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Urban ecologies on the edge : making Manila's resource frontier /

"Laguna Lake, the largest lake in the Philippines, supplies Manila's dense urban region with fish and water while operating as a sink for its stormflows and wastes. Transforming the lake to deliver these multiple urban ecological functions, however, has generated resource conflicts and con...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Saguin, Kristian Karlo, 1982- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2022]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:"Laguna Lake, the largest lake in the Philippines, supplies Manila's dense urban region with fish and water while operating as a sink for its stormflows and wastes. Transforming the lake to deliver these multiple urban ecological functions, however, has generated resource conflicts and contradictions that unfold unevenly across space. In Urban Ecologies on the Edge, Kristian Karlo Saguin tracks the politics of resource flows and unpacks the narratives of Laguna Lake as Manila's resource frontier. Provisioning the city and keeping it safe from floods are both frontier-making processes that bring together contested socioecological imaginaries, practices, and relations. Combining fieldwork and historical accounts, Saguin demonstrates how people--powerful and marginalized--interact with the state and the environment to produce the unequal landscapes of urbanization at and beyond the city's edge. "--
Notas:"A Philip E. Lilienthal book"
Descripción Física:1 online resource (x, 204 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780520382671
0520382676