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OverviewLaguna 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Kristian Karlo SaguinPublisher: University of California Press Imprint: University of California Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.318kg ISBN: 9780520382664ISBN 10: 0520382668 Pages: 216 Publication Date: 14 June 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Frontiers of Urbanization Part One Making and Remaking a Frontier 1 • Birth of a Convenient Frontier 2 • Enclosing a Commodity Frontier 3 • An Unruly Frontier Part Two The Work of Urban Metabolic Flows 4 • Chains of Urban Provisioning 5 • Biographies of Fish for the City 6 • Infrastructures of Risk Epilogue: Mutable Frontiers, Metabolic Futures Notes References IndexReviewsUrban Ecologies on the Edge provides a compelling account of how a peripheral space of provisioning evolved alongside a major urban centre, and contributed to shaping its process of urbanization. * The Canadian Geographer * """Urban Ecologies on the Edge provides a compelling account of how a peripheral space of provisioning evolved alongside a major urban centre, and contributed to shaping its process of urbanization."" * The Canadian Geographer *" Author InformationKristian Karlo Saguin is Associate Professor of Geography at the University of the Philippines. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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