The Subterranean Forest: Energy Systems and the Industrial Revolution
The author argues that the analysis of historical energy systems can provide an explanation for the basic patterns of different social formations.
The author argues that the analysis of historical energy systems can provide an explanation for the basic patterns of different social formations.
An environmental history of the Industrial Revolution, as inscribed on the Liri valley in Italy’s Central Apennines.
An investigation, based on both fieldwork and historical sources, of changing land use practices in the Amazonian floodplain forest.
In this book, David Biggs explores the actual uses of land and water in Vietnam through its troubled history.
The eighteen chapters of Restoration of Puget Sound Rivers examine geological and geomorphological controls on river and stream characteristics and dynamics, biological aspects of river systems in the region, and the application of fluvial geomorphology, civil engineering, riparian ecology, and aquatic ecology in efforts to restore Puget Sound Rivers
An environmental history of the Fraser River (British Columbia) and the attempts to dam it for power and to defend it for salmon.
A biography of the Chicago River.
Summers shows that modern environmentalism is among the most important legacies of a consumer society.
This book presents one of the first comparative histories of rivers on the continents of Europe and North America in the modern age. The contributors examine the impact of rivers on humans and, conversely, the impact of humans on rivers.
In The River Runs Black, Elizabeth C. Economy examines China’s growing environmental crisis and its implications for the country’s future development.