The Search for the Ultimate Sink: Urban Pollution in Historical Perspective
A collection of essays exploring the production and disposal of wastes in the American city since 1850.
A collection of essays exploring the production and disposal of wastes in the American city since 1850.
A study of environmentalism in post-World War II United States.
A critique of environmental justice movements in the United States.
How a site in San Francisco that had been a military base for much of its modern history became a unique, urban national park.
An account of how water pollution control policy emerged during the seminal decades of environmental activism, with reference to the largest group of freshwater lakes in the world: the Great Lakes.
A collection of essays that, as a whole, considers strong private property rights as crucial for environmental protection.
Chronicles how industry developed a continental perspective in a shared regional space, the mineralized West, and how successful efforts of governments and citizens to protect the environment evolved.
An edited collection investigating the history of forestry in the United States from the nineteenth century onward.
An account of post-World War II conflicts, prompted by the arrival of two major timber companies in Earth’s largest coastal temperate rainforest: Tongass National Forest in southeastern Alaska.
An analysis of the challenges faced by grassroots campaigns in the United States, and the corporations they oppose.