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Choked : life and breath in the age of air pollution  Cover Image Book Book

Choked : life and breath in the age of air pollution / Beth Gardiner.

Gardiner, Beth, (author.).

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780226495859
  • ISBN: 022649585X
  • Physical Description: 290 pages ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2019.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-284) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Prologue. Inhale: the meaning of a breath -- Holding our breath ; The measure of a lung: charting pollution's power ; Ground zero: Delhi's health emergency ; 9,416: living London's diesel disaster ; Air you can chew : Poland and the price of coal ; Cows, almonds, asthma: crisis in the San Joaquin Valley ; Home fires burning: a paradigm shifts -- coming up for air. To change a nation: the story of America's Clean Air Act ; Reluctant innovators: air and the automakers ; Inch by inch: L.A.'s long road ; Live from the "airpocalypse": China's next revolution ; "To whom belongs the city?": Berlin looks beyond cars - Epilogue. Exhale: what comes next.
Subject: Air > Pollution.
Air > Pollution > Social aspects.
Air > Pollution > Health aspects.
Environmental quality.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Prince Rupert Library.

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Prince Rupert Library 615.9 Gard (Text) 33294002052322 Adult Non-Fiction Volume hold Available -


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