Choked : life and breath in the age of air pollution / Beth Gardiner.
By: Gardiner, Beth [author.].
Publisher: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, ©2019Description: 290 p: 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780226495859 (cloth : alk. paper).Subject(s): Air -- Pollution | Air -- Pollution -- Social aspects | Air -- Pollution -- Health aspects | Environmental qualityGenre/Form: Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | TD883.1 .G37 2019 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU00000000015727 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.