Hybrid Nature Sewage Treatment and the Contradictions of the Industrial Ecosystem

Name: Hybrid Nature Sewage Treatment and the Contradictions of the Industrial Ecosystem
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ISBN: 9780262516389

ISBN-10: 0262516381

ISBN-13: 9780262516389

Edition: 2011

Authors: Daniel Schneider, Robert Gottlieb

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Biological sewage treatment, like electricity, power generation, telephones, and mass transit, has been a key technology and a major part of the urban infrastructure since the late nineteenth century. But sewage treatment plants are not only a ubiquitous component of the modern city, they are also ecosystems--a hybrid variety that incorporates elements of both nature and industry and embodies multiple contradictions. In Hybrid Nature, Daniel Schneider offers an environmental history of the biological sewage treatment plant in the United States and England, viewing it as an early and influential example of an industrial ecosystem. The sewage treatment plant relies on microorganisms and other…

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List price: $7.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 11/1/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 360
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Daniel Schneider is Professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning and an ecologist for the Illinois Natural History Survey at the University of Illinois at Urbana--Champaign. His work on the history of ecology has been awarded the Price/Webster Prize by the History of Science Society.



Acknowledgments


List of Abbreviations


Introduction



Natural vs. Artificial: "The Right Way to Dispose of Town Sewage"



Public vs. Private: "Nature Must Be Circumvented"



Craft vs. Science: "Be an Operator, Not a Valve Turner"



Profit vs. Purification: "Sewage Is Something to Be Got Rid Of"



The Contradictions Continue: Sewage Treatment since the Clean - Water Act



From Sewage to Biotech: "What We Have before Us Is an Industrial Product"


Conclusion: The Living Machineï¿½


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index