Unifying the Yangzi Watershed in Early Twentieth-Century China
This article examines early twentieth-century China’s top-down scheme of managing rivers based on watershed.
This article examines early twentieth-century China’s top-down scheme of managing rivers based on watershed.
From channelizations to renaturations—the catastrophic flood of the Gürbe River in July 1990 prompted profound changes in approaches to flood protection.
Between 1905 and 1912, experts on fisheries and hydraulic engineering collaborated in order to erect a fishway at the Hemelinger dam.
This article examines the environmental implications of Dutch nineteenth-century attempts to establish a telegraph connection across the Sunda Strait.
Describing geothermal exploration traces and explosions at the “El Tatio” geyser field, this article explores the (in)visible trajectories of underground water.
Making the Palace Machine Work: Mobilizing People, Objects, and Nature in the Qing Empire, edited by Martina Martina, Kai Jun Chen, and Dorothy Ko, is available to download in its entirety.
Gender colonization, progress, and nature on display as the first electricity from Hoover Dam arrived in Los Angeles in 1936.
In this Springs article, historian Melanie Arndt examines how the foundations for production, perception, and consumption of heating were laid at the turn of the twentieth century.
Full PDF of the the book Insolvent by Christoph Becker.
This volume explores the “green city” concept from a global and interdisciplinary perspective. Contributions examine the conflicts inherent in eco-modernization and investigate opportunities to respond meaningfully to urban environmental challenges.