Cultural History of Waste Disposal - Environmental Policy and Park Redevelopments

This book analyzes landfill sites in New York City, Greater Toronto, and Tel Aviv, emphasizing the global scale of issues concerning waste disposal and park redevelopments. For scholars, researchers, and academics studying waste studies, the environment, cities, and sustainable development, as well as for policymakers and eco artists.

List of contents

Chapter One: A Cultural History of Waste
Chapter Two: Waste Disposal before Environmental Regulation
Chapter Three: Environmental Regulation and Constraints
Chapter Four: Waste Crisis and Sustainable Development
Chapter Five: Representing Redevelopment
Conclusion

About the author

Benjamin A. Lawson is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Arkansas-Fort Smith, where he has a research and teaching focus on urban-environmental history, science and technology, and teacher licensure.

Summary

This book analyzes landfill sites in New York City, Greater Toronto, and Tel Aviv, emphasizing the global scale of issues concerning waste disposal and park redevelopments. For scholars, researchers, and academics studying waste studies, the environment, cities, and sustainable development, as well as for policymakers and eco artists.

Product details

• Authors: Benjamin A. Lawson, Lawson Benjamin A.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.12.2024
• EAN: 9781032560717
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3256071-7
• No. of pages: 170
• Series: Routledge Environmental History; Routledge Studies in Environmental History
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Tel Aviv, New York City, NATURE / Natural Resources, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, Tel-Aviv, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, Urban & municipal planning, Social and cultural history, Science / Environmental Science, Waste Management, Environmental policy & protocols, Human Geography, Urban communities, Urban and municipal planning and policy, Southwestern Ontario: Greater Toronto Area, Industrialisation & Industrial History, Environmental policy and protocols, Industrialisation and industrial history