The Chicago River: A Natural and Unnatural History
A biography of the Chicago River.
A biography of the Chicago River.
The 1831 cholera riot in St. Petersburg was an extreme result of the city’s immense water pollution problem and led to social conflict between the educated classes and the poor people.
Summers shows that modern environmentalism is among the most important legacies of a consumer society.
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.
In The River Runs Black, Elizabeth C. Economy examines China’s growing environmental crisis and its implications for the country’s future development.
This film follows two friends as they travel the full length of the sacred Ganges River in India.
Brara relates a story of contemporary India in the process of transition, where legal approaches to Nature are changing.
Sophie Lange discusses the environmental history of the Elbe river in Hamburg and an environmental dispute arising from mercury pollution between the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic.
Sophie Lange incontra il fiume Elba e la storia ambientale dell’Elba da adulta. Muovendosi lungo il corso del fiume, racconta le dispute tra Repubblica Federale di Germania e Repubblica Democratica Tedesca generate dagli alti tassi di inquinamento delle acque.