The age of smoke : environmental policy in Germany and the United States, 1880-1970 / Frank Uekoetter.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: German Series: History of the urban environment | University of Pittsburgh Press Digital Editions | University of Pittsburgh Digital CollectionsCopyright date: ©2009Description: 1 online resource (viii, 350 pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
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- 1322096449
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- Von der Rauchplage zur ökologischen Revolution. English
- Environmental policy -- United States -- History
- Environmental policy -- Germany -- History
- Smoke prevention -- United States -- History
- Smoke prevention -- Germany -- History
- Air quality management -- United States -- History
- Air quality management -- Germany -- History
- Air -- Pollution -- United States -- History
- Air -- Pollution -- Germany -- History
- Public health
- Smoke -- adverse effects
- Public Health
- History, 20th Century
- History, 19th Century
- Environment
- Coal -- adverse effects
- Air Pollutants -- adverse effects
- Air Pollution -- prevention & control
- United States
- Germany
- Environnement -- Politique gouvernementale -- États-Unis -- Histoire
- Environnement -- Politique gouvernementale -- Allemagne -- Histoire
- Fumée -- Lutte contre -- États-Unis -- Histoire
- Fumée -- Lutte contre -- Allemagne -- Histoire
- Air -- Qualité -- Gestion -- États-Unis -- Histoire
- Air -- Qualité -- Gestion -- Allemagne -- Histoire
- Santé publique
- Médecine -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- Médecine -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- public health
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General
- HISTORY -- General
- Air -- Pollution
- Air quality management
- Environmental policy
- Smoke prevention
- Germany
- United States
- Luftföroreningar -- Tyskland -- historia
- Luftföroreningar -- Förenta staterna -- historia
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- RA576.7.G3 U3413 2009
- WA 754
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-340) and index.
The age of smoke -- Modern times, modern problems : controlling smoke, 1880-1914 -- Pollutants and politics : air pollution control between the wars -- Beyond the pall of smoke -- Going local, going national : the postwar divergence of environmental policy -- Forerunners and pioneers -- Environmental revolutions and evolutions -- Conclusion : Was the environmental revolution necessary?
Electronic reproduction. Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Digital Research Library. (University of Pittsburgh Press Digital Editions) PPiU
Text in English; translated from the German.
Print version record.
In 1880, coal was the primary energy source for everything from home heating to industry. Regions where coal was readily available, such as the Ruhr Valley in Germany and western Pennsylvania in the United States, witnessed exponential growth-yet also suffered the greatest damage from coal pollution. These conditions prompted civic activism in the form of "anti-smoke" campaigns to attack the unsightly physical manifestations of coal burning. This early period witnessed significant cooperation between industrialists, government, and citizens to combat the smoke problem. It was not until the 1960
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