Choked : life and breath in the age of air pollution / Beth Gardiner.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780226495859
- ISBN: 022649585X
- Physical Description: 290 pages ; 24 cm
- Publisher: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2019.
- Copyright: ©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. |
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Subject: | Air > Pollution. Air > Pollution > Social aspects. Air > Pollution > Health aspects. Environmental quality. |
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