Smoke and Mirrors : The Politics and Culture of Air Pollution / E. Melanie Dupuis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dupuis, E. Melanie, Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Air--Pollution--Social aspects.

Air.

Air--Pollution--Political aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (369 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : New York University Press, [2004]

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

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

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jun 2020)

ISBN:

0-8147-8543-3

OCLC:

784884490