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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Brimblecombe, Peter,; Brown, Phil,; DuPuis, E. Melanie,; Dunsby, Joshua,; Farrell, Alexander,; Gugliotta, Angela,; Harrison, Jill,; Lezama, José Luis,; Luebke, Theo,; Mandelbaum, Joshua,; Mayer, Brian,; McCormick, Sabrina,; Mosley, Stephen,; Osborn, Matthew,; Platt, Harold L.,; Rajan, Sudhir Chella,; Raufer, Roger K.,; Tarr, Joel A.,; Thorsheim, Peter,; Uekoetter, Frank,; Zavestoski, Stephen,
• HerausgeberIn: Dupuis, E. Melanie,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2004]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Emergence of Air Pollution as a Problem -- 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 -- Air Pollution Policy Today -- 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