Smoke and Mirrors : The Politics and Culture of Air Pollution / ed. by E. Melanie Dupuis.
Brimblecombe, Peter, contributor.; Brown, Phil, contributor.; DuPuis, E. Melanie, contributor.; Dunsby, Joshua, contributor.; Dupuis, E. Melanie, editor.; Farrell, Alexander, contributor.; Gugliotta, Angela, contributor.; Harrison, Jill, contributor.; Lezama, José Luis, contributor.; Luebke, Theo, contributor.; Mandelbaum, Joshua, contributor.; Mayer, Brian, contributor.; McCormick, Sabrina, contributor.; Mosley, Stephen, contributor.; Osborn, Matthew, contributor.; Platt, Harold L., contributor.; Rajan, Sudhir Chella, contributor.; Raufer, Roger K., contributor.; Tarr, Joel A., contributor.; Thorsheim, Peter, contributor.; Uekoetter, Frank, contributor.; Zavestoski, Stephen, contributor.
2004
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Title
Smoke and Mirrors : The Politics and Culture of Air Pollution / ed. by E. Melanie Dupuis.
ISBN
9780814785430
DOI
https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814785430.001.0001
Published
New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2004]
Copyright
©2004
Language
English
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In English.
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1 online resource
Item Number
10.18574/nyu/9780814785430.001.0001 doi
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TD883 .S635 2004
Dewey Decimal Classification
363.739/2
Summary
Who gets to breathe clean air? Who benefits from the cheaper products produced with dirty air? The answers, as the contributors to Smoke and Mirrors tell us, are sometimes as gray as the air itself. From the coal factory chimneys in Manchester in the late nineteenth century to the smog hanging over Los Angeles in the late twentieth century, air pollution has long been one of the greatest threats to our environment. In this important collection of original essays, the leading environmental scientists and social scientists examine the politics of air pollution policies and help us to understand the ways these policies have led to, idiosyncratic, effective, ineffective, and even disastrous choices about what we choose to put into and take out of the air. Offering historical, contemporary and cross-national perspectives, this volume provides a refreshing new approach to understanding how air pollution policies have evolved over time.
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Brimblecombe, Peter, contributor.
Brown, Phil, contributor.
DuPuis, E. Melanie, contributor.
Dunsby, Joshua, contributor.
Dupuis, E. Melanie, editor.
Farrell, Alexander, contributor.
Gugliotta, Angela, contributor.
Harrison, Jill, contributor.
Lezama, José Luis, contributor.
Luebke, Theo, contributor.
Mandelbaum, Joshua, contributor.
Mayer, Brian, contributor.
McCormick, Sabrina, contributor.
Mosley, Stephen, contributor.
Osborn, Matthew, contributor.
Platt, Harold L., contributor.
Rajan, Sudhir Chella, contributor.
Raufer, Roger K., contributor.
Tarr, Joel A., contributor.
Thorsheim, Peter, contributor.
Uekoetter, Frank, contributor.
Zavestoski, Stephen, contributor.
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New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Emergence of Air Pollution as a Problem
1. Perceptions and Effects of Late Victorian Air Pollution
2. "The Invisible Evil"
3. Public Perceptions of Smoke Pollution in Victorian Manchester
4. Uplands Downwind
5. The "Smoky City" between the Wars
6. The Merits of the Precautionary Principle
7. Interpreting the London Fog Disaster of 1952
8. Localizing Smog
Air Pollution Policy Today
9. A Fine Balance
10. Who Owns the Air?
11. Air Pollution in Spain
12. Clearing the Air and Breathing Freely
13. Invisible People, Invisible Places
14. Notes from the Field
15. The Social and Political Construction of Air Pollution
Afterword
Contributors
Index

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