Urban ecologies on the edge : making Manila's resource frontier / Kristian Karlo Saguin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Saguin, Kristian Karlo, 1982- author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political ecology--Philippines--Manila--20th century.

Political ecology.

Political ecology--Philippines--Manila--21st century.

Human ecology--Philippines.

Human ecology.

Laguna de Bay (Philippines).

Philippines.

Philippines--Laguna de Bay.

Philippines--Manila.

Physical Description:

x, 204 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Making Manila's resource frontier

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2022]

Summary:

"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"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Frontiers of urbanization

Birth of a convenient frontier

Enclosing a commodity frontier

An unruly frontier

The Work of Urban Metabolic Flows. Chains of urban provisioning

Biographies of fish for the city

Infrastructures of risk

Epilogue: Mutable frontiers, metabolic futures.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Saguin, Kristian Karlo, 1982- Urban ecologies on the edge

ISBN:

9780520382640

0520382641

9780520382664

0520382668

OCLC:

1258216510