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  • 1
    UID:
    almafu_9960799886102883
    Format: 1 online resource (273 p.)
    ISBN: 0-87417-864-9
    Series Statement: Urban West Series
    Note: Includes index. , Introduction / Amy L. Scott and Kathleen A. Brosnan -- The wishful West / John M. Findlay -- pt. 1. The metropolitan retreat to the eco-urban -- Crafting the good life in Irvine, California / Stephanie Kolberg -- Open-space politics in Boulder, Colorado / Amy L. Scott -- Wilderburbs and Rocky Mountain development / Lincoln Bramwell -- Middle-class migration and rural gentrification in western Montana / Rina Ghose -- pt. 2. Tourism, memory, and Western urban identities -- Urbanity and pastoralism in Napa tourism / Kathleen A. Brosnan -- Family travel, national parks, and the Cold War West / Susan S. Rugh -- Public art, memory, and mobility in 1920s New Mexico / Jeffrey C. Sanders -- Reclaiming Cannery Row's industrial history / Connie Y. Chiang -- Seattle's Pike Place Market / Judy Mattivi Morley -- pt. 3. From cultural and geographic margins to urban centers -- The making of San Francisco's queer urban scene / Nan Alamilla Boyd -- San Francisco, Red power, and the emergence of an "Indian city" / Kent Blansett -- Gay male rural-urban migration in the American West / Peter Boag. , English
    Additional Edition: ISBN 0-87417-851-7
    Language: English
    Keywords: Electronic books.
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  • 2
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    Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania :University of Pittsburgh Press,
    UID:
    almafu_9959242595702883
    Format: 1 online resource (289 pages).
    Edition: 1st ed.
    ISBN: 0-8229-7922-5
    Series Statement: History of the Urban Environment
    Content: "Fossil fuels propelled industries and nations into the modern age and continue to powerfully influence economies and politics today. As Energy Capitals demonstrates, the discovery and exploitation of fossil fuels has proven to be a mixed blessing in many of the cities and regions where it has occurred. With case studies from the United States, Canada, Mexico, Norway, Africa, and Australia, this volume views a range of older and more recent energy capitals, contrasts their evolutions, and explores why some capitals were able to influence global trends in energy production and distribution while others failed to control even their own destinies"--
    Content: "Fossil fuels propelled industries and nations into the modern age and continue to powerfully influence economies and politics today. As Energy Capitals demonstrates, the discovery and exploitation of fossil fuels has proven to be a mixed blessing in many of the cities and regions where it has occurred. With case studies from the United States, Canada, Mexico, Norway, Africa, and Australia, this volume views a range of older and more recent energy capitals, contrasts their evolutions, and explores why some capitals were able to influence global trends in energy production and distribution while others failed to control even their own destinies. Chapters show how local and national politics, social structures, technological advantages, education systems, capital, infrastructure, labor force, supply and demand, and other factors have affected the ability of a region to develop and control its own fossil fuel reserves. The contributors also view the environmental impact of energy industries and demonstrate how, in the depletion of reserves or a shift to new energy sources, regions have or have not been able to recover economically. The cities of Tampico, Mexico, and Port Gentil, Gabon, have seen their oil deposits exploited by international companies with little or nothing to show in return and at a high cost environmentally. At the opposite extreme, Houston, Texas, has witnessed great economic gain from its oil, natural gas, and petrochemical industries. Its growth, however, has been tempered by the immense strain on infrastructure and the human transformation of the natural environment. In another scenario, Perth, Australia, Calgary, Alberta, and Stavanger, Norway have benefitted as the closest established cities with administrative and financial assets for energy production that was developed hundreds of miles away. Whether coal, oil, or natural gas, the essays offer important lessons learned over time and future considerations for the best ways to capture the benefits of energy development while limiting the cost to local populations and environments. "--
    Note: Includes index. , Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. Blessed by Fossil Fuels? Pittsburgh, Houston, Louisiana, and Los Angeles -- 1. Pittsburgh as an Energy Capital: Perspectives on Coal and Natural Gas Transitions and the Environment - Joel A. Tarr and Karen Clay -- 2. The Energy Capital of the World?: Oil-Led Development in Twentieth-Century Houston - Martin V. Melosi and Joseph A. Pratt -- 3. Making a Lemon Out of Lemonade: Louisiana's Petrochemical Corridor - Craig E. Colten -- 4. Los Angeles, the Energy Capital of Southern California - Sarah S. Elkind -- Part II. Distant yet Central? : Perth, Calgary, and Stravanger -- 5. Scoping Perth as an Energy Capital - Jenny Gregory -- 6. At Arm's Length: Energy and the Construction of a Peripheral Prairie Petrometropolis - Mattheew N. Eisler -- 7. Oil Shocks in an Oil City: The View from Stavanger, Norway, 1973-2008 - Gunner Nerhelm -- Part III. Cursed by Oil? : Tampico and Port-Gentil -- 8. Tampico, Mexico: The Rise and Decline of an Energy Metropolis - Myrna Santiago -- 9. Port-Gentil: From Forestry Capital to Energy Capital - Douglas A. Yates -- Conclusion: Comparative Perspectives on Energy Capitals -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index. , English
    Additional Edition: ISBN 0-8229-6266-7
    Additional Edition: ISBN 1-306-70901-6
    Language: English
    Keywords: Electronic books.
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  • 3
    UID:
    almafu_9959870616002883
    Format: 1 online resource (x, 406 pages) : , illustrations.
    ISBN: 0-8229-8772-4
    Series Statement: History of the urban environment
    Content: "Known as the Windy City and the Hog Butcher to the World, Chicago has earned a more apt sobriquet-City of Lake and Prairie-with this compelling, innovative, and deeply researched environmental history. Sitting at the southwestern tip of Lake Michigan, one of the largest freshwater bodies in the world, and on the eastern edge of the tallgrass prairies that fill much of the North American interior, early residents in the land that Chicago now occupies enjoyed natural advantages, economic opportunities, and global connections over centuries, from the Native Americans who first inhabited the region to the urban dwellers who built a metropolis in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. As one millennium ended and a new one began, these same features sparked a distinctive Midwestern environmentalism aimed at preserving local ecosystems. Drawing on its contributors' interdisciplinary talents, this volume reveals a rich but often troubled landscape shaped by communities of color, workers, and activists as well as complex human relations with industry, waterways, animals, and disease"--
    Additional Edition: ISBN 0-8229-4631-9
    Language: English
    Keywords: Electronic books.
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  • 4
    UID:
    b3kat_BV046905258
    Format: x, 406 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    ISBN: 9780822946311 , 9780822966739
    Series Statement: History of the urban environment
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 978-0-8229-8772-7
    Language: English
    Subjects: History , General works
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    Keywords: Chicago, Ill. ; Michigansee ; Stadtentwicklung ; Stadtökologie ; Umwelt ; Geschichte ; Aufsatzsammlung
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  • 5
    UID:
    gbv_627180779
    ISBN: 9780816067930
    Series Statement: Facts on File library of American history
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Erschienen: 1 - 4
    Language: English
    Keywords: USA ; Umweltpolitik ; Geschichte ; Wörterbuch
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  • 6
    UID:
    gbv_1743962738
    Format: xii, 416 Seiten , Illustrationen , 26 cm
    ISBN: 9780226696430 , 022669643X
    Content: "Maps are inherently unnatural. Projecting three-dimensional realities on two-dimensional surfaces, maps are abstractions that capture someone's idea of what matters within a particular place; they require selections and omissions. It is these very characteristics, however, that give maps their importance in our understanding of how humans have interacted with the natural world over time and that give historical maps the capability to provide rich insights into the relationship between humans and nature overtime. That is just what is achieved in Mapping Nature Across the Americas. The essays in this book argue for the greater analysis of historical maps in the field of environmental history and for greater attention within the field of the history of cartography to the cultural constructions of nature contained within maps. This volume thus provides the first in-depth investigation of the relationship between maps and environmental knowledge in the Americas, from sixteenth century indigenous cartography in Mexico to the mapping of American forests in the US during the early conservation years of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries"--
    Note: Literaturangaben in Endnoten , Mit Register
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9780226696577
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Mapping nature across the Americas Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2021 ISBN 9780226696577
    Language: English
    Subjects: History , English Studies
    RVK:
    RVK:
    Keywords: Kartengestaltung ; Kartenentwurf ; Kartografie ; Physische Geografie ; Amerika ; Aufsatzsammlung
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  • 7
    UID:
    gbv_670783927
    Format: XXXVII, 352, 56 S , Ill., Kt
    Series Statement: Facts on File library of American history
    In: Vol. 1
    Language: English
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  • 8
    UID:
    gbv_670784095
    Format: S. 722 - 1090, 56 S , Ill., Kt
    Series Statement: Facts on File library of American history
    In: Vol. 3
    Language: English
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  • 9
    UID:
    gbv_670784133
    Format: S. 1092 - 1460, 56 S , Ill., Kt
    Series Statement: Facts on File library of American history
    In: Vol. 4
    Language: English
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  • 10
    UID:
    gbv_670784044
    Format: S. 354 - 719, 56 S , Ill., Kt
    Series Statement: Facts on File library of American history
    In: Vol. 2
    Language: English
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