Hybrid nature : sewage treatment and the contradictions of the industrial ecosystem / Daniel Schneider.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schneider, Daniel, 1959 January 3-

Series:

Urban and industrial environments.

Urban and industrial environments

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sewage--Purification--Biological treatment--History.

Sewage.

Industrial ecology--Philosophy.

Industrial ecology.

Contradiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (371 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Sewage treatment and the contradictions of the industrial ecosystem

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A history of of the industrial ecosystem that focuses on the biological sewage treatment plant as an early example.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction

1 Natural vs. Artificial: "The Right Way to Dispose of Town Sewage"

Land Treatment as the Right and Natural Way to Dispose of Sewage

Naturalizing Biology

"Nature's Own Methods"

Contesting the Natural

Rejecting Bacteria

Industrializing Biology

Activated Sludge

Creating an Ecosystem

Industrializing the Ecosystem

2 Public vs. Private: "Nature Must Be Circumvented"

The Septic Tank Syndicate

Activated Sludge Inc.

Patents and Professionals

Sewage and the Public Interest

Public Research

Monopolizing Natural Processes

"The Chaos of Pure Science and Natural Processes"

The Rise of Private Industrial Research

3 Craft vs. Science: "Be an Operator, Not a Valve Turner"

Process Control

Process Control in Sewage Treatment

"Skilled Control of the Process Will Be Essential"

"A Living System"

An "Unsavoury" Occupation

"If Only We Could Measure It"

The Visible and the Invisible

Complexity and Alienation

4 Profit vs. Purification: "Sewage Is Something to Be Got Rid Of"

The "Search for 'El Dorado' in the Cities' Sewers"

Crossness and Barking

"A Mischievous Error"

The Rise of Biological Treatment

Profit and Purification in America

Milwaukee and "Sewer Socialism"

Milorganite®

"Plus Values"

"A Fancy Name...Helps a Lot"

"We Are a Sanitary Facility"

5 The Contradictions Continue: Sewage Treatment since the Clean Water Act

Profit vs. Purification

Craft vs. Science

Public vs. Private

Natural vs. Artificial

Biological Sewage Treatment in the Twenty-first Century

6 From Sewage to Biotech: "What We Have before Us Is an Industrial Product"

Biotechnology and the Contradictions of the Industrial Ecosystem

The Expanding Industrial Ecosystem.

Hybridizing Sewage, Biotechnology, and Nature

7 Conclusion: The Living Machine®

Notes

1 Natural vs. Artificial

2 Public vs. Private

3 Craft vs. Science

4 Profit vs. Purification

5 The Contradictions Continue

6 From Sewage to Biotech

7 Conclusion

Selected Bibliography

Index

Urban and Industrial Environments Series.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

9780262312509

0262312506

OCLC:

856411552

Publisher Number:

2027/heb32971 hdl