No Man's Zone
This film examines the lives of the people affected by the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.
This film examines the lives of the people affected by the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.
This film documents the effect of chemical and pesticide residuals on the Inuit community of Greenland, where they are carried by oceans and snow. It also examines the situations of those around the globe who must use these pesticides to survive.
The interview with Piero Bevilacqua touches on a broad range of subjects: From the use of pesticides to the “Green Revolution”; from GMOs to biodynamic and biological agriculture, and the respect of biodiversity; from modern farming’s wasteful use of water to Common Agricultural Policy with its nonsustainable exploitation of farmland.
This article explores the connection between the significant health improvements made in the developing world, particularly after World War II, and the goal of providing clean water and sanitation services to large urban centers in these countries.
The authors evaluate the attitudes and perceptions of local communities living in proximity to protected areas. To demonstrate the positive effects of protected areas providing employment or services to neighboring communities, they study the provision of a mobile health clinic in Kibale National Park in Uganda.
The third episode of the Crosscurrents podcast series focuses on the relationship between mental health and public safety for workers through the research conducted by Rose Ricciardelli, Associate Professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland.
With a focus on global cancer epidemics, Nina Lykke discusses biopolitics in the Anthropocene against the background of a notion of dual governmentality, implying that efforts to make populations live and tendencies to let them die are intertwined.
In a special section entitled “Living Lexicon for the Environmental Humanities,” Sara J. Grossman reflects on the definition of disability and disabled communities within environmental humanities.
What can we learn from human responses to epidemics and pandemics in history? What insights can ecological and environmental humanities perspectives provide? This new and growing collection of annotated links to open-access media (analyses, primary sources, and digital resources) helps put pandemics in context.
This essay looks at the phenomenon of diabetes in the United States from the viewpoint of environmental history.