Recommended Reading

Allen, Robert C., “Energy Transitions in History: The Shift to Coal,” in “Energy Transitions in History: Global Cases of Continuity and Change,” ed. Richard W. Unger, RCC Perspectives 2013, no 2: 11-15. http://www.environmentandsociety.org/node/6216.

Artz, Sophie. “Solar Energy.” Environment & Society Portal, Multimedia Library, 2014. http://www.environmentandsociety.org/node/6635.

Blackbourn, David. “The Culture and Politics of Energy in Germany: A Historical Perspective.” RCC Perspectives 2013, no 4. http://www.environmentandsociety.org/node/5624.

Brannstrom, Christian. “Was Brazilian Industrialisation Fuelled by Wood? Evaluating the Wood Hypothesis, 1900–1960.” Environment and History 11, no. 4 (Nov. 2005): 395–430. http://www.environmentandsociety.org/node/3247.

Cioc, Mark. “The Impact of the Coal Age on the German Environment: A Review of the Historical Literature.” Environment and History 4, no. 1 (1998): 105–124. doi: 10.3197/096734098779555754. http://www.environmentandsociety.org/node/2961.

Fouquet, Roger, and Peter Pearson, eds. “Past and Prospective Energy Transitions.” Special issue, Energy Policy 50 (2012). doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2012.08.014. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/03014215/50.

Gales, Ben, “A Dutch revolution: Natural Gas in the Netherlands,” in “Energy Transitions in History: Global Cases of Continuity and Change,” ed. Richard W. Unger, RCC Perspectives 2013, no 2: 83-90. http://www.environmentandsociety.org/node/6226.

Lynch, Harry. Switch. Austin: Arcos Films, 2012. HD, 98 min. http://www.environmentandsociety.org/node/7164.

Madureira, Nuno Luís. “The Iron Industry Energy Transition.” Energy Policy 50 (November 2012): 24–34. http://www.environmentandsociety.org/node/7478.

———. Key Concepts in Energy. Heidelberg and New York: Springer International Publishing, 2014. Preview chapter: http://www.springer.com/gb/book/9783319049779.

Mauch, Felix. “Atlantropa – Endless Energy from the Mediterranean Sea.” Environment & Society Portal, Arcadia 2012, no. 9. Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. http://www.environmentandsociety.org/node/3864.

Mavhunga, Clapperton Chakanetsa, and Helmuth Trischler, eds. “Energy (and) Colonialism, Energy (In)Dependence: Africa, Europe, Greenland, North America.” RCC Perspectives 2014, no. 5. http://www.environmentandsociety.org/node/6554.

Morgan, Faith. The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil. Yellow Springs, OH: Arthur Morgan Institute for Community Solutions, 2006. 53 min. http://www.environmentandsociety.org/node/3799.

Niepytalska, Marta. “Interview with Donald Worster I. Facing Limits: Abundance, Scarcity, and the American Way of Life.” Carson Fellow Portraits. Directed by Alec Hahn. Filmed May 2011. MPEG video, 3:52. http://www.environmentandsociety.org/node/3427.

———. “Interview with John McNeill I: An Environmental History of the Industrial Revolution.” Carson Fellow Portraits. Directed by Alec Hahn. Filmed August 2011. MPEG video, 3:13. http://www.environmentandsociety.org/node/3565/.

Schanze, Jens. Otzenrath 3° kälter [Strange Homeland]. Munich: Mascha Film, 2007. Super 16 mm, 81 min. http://www.environmentandsociety.org/node/3435.

Sieferle, Rolf Peter. The Subterranean Forest: Energy Systems and the Industrial Revolution. Translated from the German original by Michael P. Osman. Cambridge: The White Horse Press, 2001. http://www.environmentandsociety.org/node/3487.

Unger, Richard W., ed. “Energy Transitions in History: Global Cases of Continuity and Change.” RCC Perspectives 2013, no 2. http://www.environmentandsociety.org/node/5602.

Urey, Emmanuel K. “Corridors, Concessions, and the Extraction of Natural Resources in Liberia.” Environment & Society Portal, Arcadia 2015, no. 8. Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. http://www.environmentandsociety.org/node/6945.

Vogt, Markus. “Climate Justice.” RCC Perspectives 2010, no 3. http://www.environmentandsociety.org/node/5566.

Wang, Ruohan. “Mining.” Environment & Society Portal, Multimedia Library, 2014. http://www.environmentandsociety.org/node/6649/.

Worster, Donald. “The Flow of Empire: Comparing Water Control in the United States and China.” RCC Perspectives 2011, no 5. http://www.environmentandsociety.org/node/5586.