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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Saguin, Kristian Karlo, 1982- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human ecology.

Political ecology.

Laguna de Bay (Philippines).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (245 pages)

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.

Contents:

Intro

Imprint

Subvention

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Frontiers of Urbanization

Part One: Making and Remaking a Frontier

1 Birth of a Convenient Frontier

2 Enclosing a Commodity Frontier

3 An Unruly Frontier

Part Two: The Work of Urban Metabolic Flows

4 Chains of Urban Provisioning

5 Biographies of Fish for the City

6 Infrastructures of Risk

Epilogue: Mutable Frontiers, Metabolic Futures

Notes

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520382671

0520382676

OCLC:

1311318324