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Don't breathe the air : air pollution and U.S. environmental politics, 1945-1970 /
"In Don't Breathe the Air, Scott Hamilton Dewey traces the history of air pollution control efforts, focusing on the decade of the sixties, and describes how local efforts helped create both the modern environmental movement and federal environmental policy."--Jacket
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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College Station, Tex. :
Texas A & M University Press,
©2000.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
| Colección: | Environmental history series ;
no. 16. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Recurring cycles: a brief history of air pollution and control efforts in Britain and the United States before 1945
- Trouble in paradise: the discovery of smog
- Smog town vs. the motor city: taming the automobile
- Folklore: the public confronts smog
- Reinventing the wheel: air pollution control policy in New York City, 1945-70
- A fight to the finish: the publics crusade against air pollution
- Jersey: the interstate dilemma
- The fickle finger of phosphate: industrial air pollution in rural central Florida
- Conference, conciliation, and persuasion: public anger, official inaction
- The perils of federalism: the intrastate dilemma
- The three-thousand-mile-long sewer: air pollution as a national problem.