Green Infrastructure, Grey Epistemologies, and the Urban Political Ecology of Pittsburgh's Water Governance

Antipode

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1000-1021

  Finewood, Michael H ^a  

^a PACE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

infrastructure; Pittsburgh; sewer overflows; urban political ecology; water governance

Indexed keywords

GOVERNANCE APPROACH; INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT; METROPOLITAN AREA; SEWER NETWORK; STORMWATER; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY;

PENNSYLVANIA; PITTSBURGH; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84963772863     PISSN: 00664812     EISSN: 14678330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/anti.12238     Document Type: Article

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