Urban ecologies on the edge : making Manila's resource frontier /
Laguna Lake, the largest lake in the Philippines, supplies Manila's dense urban region with fish and water while operating as a sink for its stormflows and wastes. Transforming the lake to deliver these multiple urban ecological functions, however, has generated resource conflicts and contradic...
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[2022].
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Frontiers of urbanization
- Birth of a convenient frontier
- Enclosing a commodity frontier
- An unruly frontier
- The Work of Urban Metabolic Flows. Chains of urban provisioning
- Biographies of fish for the city
- Infrastructures of risk
- Epilogue: Mutable frontiers, metabolic futures.