Inescapable Ecologies: A History of Environment, Disease, and Knowledge
An original history of “ecological” ideas of the body as it unfolded in California’s Central Valley.
An original history of “ecological” ideas of the body as it unfolded in California’s Central Valley.
The first cholera epidemic in St. Petersburg, then capital of the Russian Empire, brought to light the city’s enormous sanitary problems. During the course of the epidemic 12,540 people sickened and 6,449 died.
Ken Cruikshank and Nancy Bouchier’s research on the environmental history of the Hamilton, Ontario, waterfront since 1955 looks at who determines the environmental health of a community.
Garbage, wastewater, and hazardous waste: these are the lenses through which Melosi views nineteenth- and twentieth-century America. In broad overviews and specific case studies, Melosi treats the relationship between industrial expansion and urban growth from an ecological perspective.
Garth Lenz has played a major part in the fight against Alberta Tar Sands Mining through his photojournalism.
A leader in the study of the ecology and evolution of marine organisms, Jeremy Jackson is known for his deep understanding of geological time.
This volume of RCC Perspectives contains an English and a German version of a speech made by RCC Director Christof Mauch in 2009. In his speech, Mauch outlines the purpose of the Rachel Carson Center and argues for the importance of studying environmental history.
Tom O’Riordan discusses valuation as revelation and reconciliation, arguing that a more legitimate participatory form of democracy is required to reveal valuation through consensual negotiation.
Vernon G. Thomas discuss attitudes and issues preventing bans on toxic lead shot and sinkers in North America and Europe, to point out that despite the parallels between these countries’ reforms, there has been little parity between the banning of lead shot and fishing sinkers.
Peter S. Wenz analyses the notion of efficiency and argues that transportation policies that environmentalists favour—substitution of intercity rail and urban mass transit for most automotive forms of transport—are both efficient and just.