Smoke and Mirrors: The Politics and Culture of Air Pollution

Who gets to breathe clean air? Who benefits from the cheaper products produced with dirty air? The answers, as the contributors to Smoke and Mirrors tell us, are sometimes as gray as the air itself.
From the coal factory chimneys in Manchester in the late nineteenth century to the smog hanging over Los Angeles in the late twentieth century, air pollution has long been one of the greatest threats to our environment. In this important collection of original essays, the leading environmental scientists and social scientists examine the politics of air pollution policies and help us to understand the ways these policies have led to, idiosyncratic, effective, ineffective, and even disastrous choices about what we choose to put into and take out of the air. Offering historical, contemporary and cross-national perspectives, this volume provides a refreshing new approach to understanding how air pollution policies have evolved over time.

Author: E. Melanie Dupuis
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 07/01/2004
Pages: 360
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.04h x 5.96w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780814719619

Review Citation(s):
Choice 01/01/2005 pg. 883

About the Author
Dupuis, E. Melanie: - E. Melanie DuPuis is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz and author of Nature's Perfect Food: How Milk Became America's Drink.