| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Technology and the environment
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Technology and the environment (Akron, Ohio)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
pt. I. Early Pollution Concerns and the Direction of Technological Change. 1. Pollution Concerns Articulated. 2. Concerns in the Oil Fields. 3. Keeping Oil in the Pipelines. 4. Refineries, Pollution Concerns, and Technological Change. 5. What to Do with Tankers? -- pt. II. Fighting Pollution Under An Efficiency Ethic. 6. Validating a Guiding Ethic. 7. Success and Failure in the Oil Fields. 8. Eliminating Corrosion and Monitoring Flows. 9. Creating a Pollution Control Manual. 10. Ocean Ignored As Tankers Grow -- pt. III. Regulating Industrial Activity to Maintain Environmental Quality. 11. Crude Awakening. 12. Redefining Efficiency. 13. Environmental Objectives and the Evolution of Tankers. 14. Closing the Loop. |
| Summary |
Today, pollution control regulations define how complex technological systems interact with natural ecosystems and competing human uses of the environment. Redefining Efficiency examines the evolution of this industrial ecology in the United States by tracing numerous pollution concerns associated with the production, transportation, and refining of petroleum over the course of the twentieth century. In doing so, this book demonstrates that a pollution control ethic based on the efficient use of resources emerged early in the century and met with enough success to undermine the first calls for strict government-enforced regulations. Redefining Efficiency also chronicles the failure of this efficiency-based pollution control ethic and its replacement by another. This second ethic required society first to define its environmental objectives and then to institute policies to achieve those objectives. The resulting regulations, by restructuring the economics of pollution control, have since redefined the notion of industrial efficiency. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Petroleum industry and trade -- Environmental aspects -- United States.
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Petroleum industry and trade -- Environmental aspects. |
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United States. |
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Industrial efficiency -- United States.
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Industrial efficiency. |
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Environmental protection -- United States -- History.
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Environmental protection. |
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History. |
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Pollution -- Law and legislation -- United States.
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Pollution -- Law and legislation. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gorman, Hugh S. (Hugh Scott), 1957- Redefining efficiency. 1st ed. Akron Press, Akron, OH : University of Akron Press, ©2001 1884836747 (DLC) 2001002140 (OCoLC)46790967 |
| ISBN |
9781935603283 (electronic book) |
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1935603280 (electronic book) |
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9781935603290 (electronic book) |
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1935603299 (electronic book) |
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1884836747 |
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9781884836749 |
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1884836755 |
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9781884836756 |
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