Don't breathe the air: air pollution and U.S. environmental politics, 1945-1970 Scott Hamilton Dewey.
Series: Environmental history series ; no. 16.Publication details: College Station, TX : Texas A&M University Press, c2000Edition: 1st edDescription: 10, 321 p. ; 25 cmISBN: 9780890969144Subject(s): Air -- Pollution -- United States -- History | Environmentalism -- United States -- History | Environmental policy -- United States -- HistoryDDC classification: 363.7392 LOC classification: TD883.2 | .D48 2000| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Nalanda University Ecology and Environment | School of Ecology and Environment Studies | 363.7392 D5151 (Browse shelf (Opens below)) | Available | 009035 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-307) and index.
Ch. 1. Introduction. Ch. 2. Recurring Cycles: A Brief History of Air Pollution and Control Efforts in Britain and the United States before 1945 -- Pt. I. Los Angeles. Ch. 3. Trouble in Paradise: The Discovery of Smog. Ch. 4. Smog Town vs. the Motor City: Taming the Automobile. Ch. 5. Folklore: The Public Confronts Smog -- Pt. II. New York. Ch. 6. Reinventing the Wheel: Air Pollution Control Policy in New York City, 1945-70. Ch. 7. A Fight to the Finish: The Public's Crusade against Air Pollution. Ch. 8. Jersey: The Interstate Dilemma -- Pt. III. Florida. Ch. 9. The Fickle Finger of Phosphate: Industrial Air Pollution in Rural Central Florida. Ch. 10. Conference, Conciliation, and Persuasion: Public Anger, Official Inaction. Ch. 11. The Perils of Federalism: The Intrastate Dilemma. Ch. 12. The Three-Thousand-Mile-Long Sewer: Air Pollution as a National Problem.
"In Don't Breathe the Air, Scott Hamilton Dewey traces the history of air pollution control efforts, focusing on the decade of the sixties, and describes how local efforts helped create both the modern environmental movement and federal environmental policy."--BOOK JACKET.
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