Urban ecologies on the edge : making Manila's resource frontier /
Saguin, Kristian Karlo, 1982-
Urban ecologies on the edge : making Manila's resource frontier / Kristian Karlo Saguin. - x, 204 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : frontiers of urbanization -- Birth of a convenient frontier -- Enclosing a commodity frontier -- An unruly frontier -- Chains of urban provisioning -- Biographies of fish for the city -- Infrastructures of risk -- Epilogue : mutable frontiers, metabolic futures.
"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 contradictions that unfold unevenly across space. In Urban Ecologies on the Edge, Kristian Karlo Saguin tracks the politics of resource flows and unpacks the narratives of Laguna Lake as Manila's resource frontier. Provisioning the city and keeping it safe from floods are both frontier-making processes that bring together contested socioecological imaginaries, practices, and relations. Combining fieldwork and historical accounts, Saguin demonstrates how people--powerful and marginalized--interact with the state and the environment to produce the unequal landscapes of urbanization at and beyond the city's edge. "--
9780520382664
2021057713
Political ecology--Philippines--Manila--20th century.
Political ecology--Philippines--Manila--21st century.
Human ecology--Philippines.
NATURE / Ecology
NATURE / Natural Resources
Laguna de Bay (Philippines)
304.20917320959916 SAG / 019058
Urban ecologies on the edge : making Manila's resource frontier / Kristian Karlo Saguin. - x, 204 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : frontiers of urbanization -- Birth of a convenient frontier -- Enclosing a commodity frontier -- An unruly frontier -- Chains of urban provisioning -- Biographies of fish for the city -- Infrastructures of risk -- Epilogue : mutable frontiers, metabolic futures.
"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 contradictions that unfold unevenly across space. In Urban Ecologies on the Edge, Kristian Karlo Saguin tracks the politics of resource flows and unpacks the narratives of Laguna Lake as Manila's resource frontier. Provisioning the city and keeping it safe from floods are both frontier-making processes that bring together contested socioecological imaginaries, practices, and relations. Combining fieldwork and historical accounts, Saguin demonstrates how people--powerful and marginalized--interact with the state and the environment to produce the unequal landscapes of urbanization at and beyond the city's edge. "--
9780520382664
2021057713
Political ecology--Philippines--Manila--20th century.
Political ecology--Philippines--Manila--21st century.
Human ecology--Philippines.
NATURE / Ecology
NATURE / Natural Resources
Laguna de Bay (Philippines)
304.20917320959916 SAG / 019058