Cities, hazards and their hinterlands

Waddington, Keir ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8833-8855 2025. Cities, hazards and their hinterlands. Bates, Victoria, Gomez, Rocio and Abrams, Amber, eds. The Routledge Handbook of Health and Environmental Humanities, Routledge Handbooks, London: Routledge, Item availability restricted.

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Abstract

In exploring how the city, environment, and health are deeply connected, this chapter places interconnectedness at its centre. It uses environmental history and the social history of medicine as disciplinary lens through which to examine urban health hazards as transboundary problems. A focus on Britain in the long nineteenth century as a historical case study makes it possible to trace how urban hazards crossed the shifting boundaries between cities and their hinterlands and vice versa, drawing attention to the historical rootedness of the material flows and their impact on environment and health in the twenty-first century city. The unseen borders between cities and neighbouring authorities and communities – administrative and jurisdictional – are also examined to show how they equally determined the response to environmental hazards, both in cities and beyond. Though a geographically and temporally specific case study, this chapter’s critical interrogation of the city speaks to a range of geographical and temporal contexts by focusing on what these interconnections can tell us about the dynamics of conflict and cooperation in regulating urban health hazards and why when thinking about health and environment we should not stop at the city’s borders.

Item Type:	Book Section
Status:	In Press
Schools:	Schools > History, Archaeology and Religion
Subjects:	D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D204 Modern History D History General and Old World > DA Great Britain H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform
Publisher:	Routledge
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	10 April 2025
Date of Acceptance:	March 2025
Last Modified:	10 Apr 2025 08:52
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/177509

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