Water: A Natural History
An environmental history of waterways in the United States.
An environmental history of waterways in the United States.
Green Versus Gold examines California’s environmental history, ranging from its Native American past to conflicts and movements of recent decades.
An environmental and social history of the Salton Sea, a saline lake in southern California.
Stefania Barca presents an environmental history of the Industrial Revolution, through the lens of the Liri River Valley.
In five major sections, this edited collection investigates the interaction of population growth, consumption, and environment; the emerging crisis in freshwater around the globe; global climate and atmosphere (including global warming); biodiversity loss; and the concept of sustainable development using natural resources to place future human development on a sustainable path.
This political biography of Wayne Aspinall is an insightful account of the political, financial, and personal variables that affect the course by which water resource legislation is conceived, supported, and implemented—a book that is essential to understanding the history and future of water in the West.
Using the Malheur Basin in southeastern Oregon as a case study, this intriguing and nuanced book explores the ways people have envisioned boundaries between water and land, the ways they have altered these places, and the often unintended results.
An environmental history of the Fraser River (British Columbia) and the attempts to dam it for power and to defend it for salmon.
This illustrated history recounts how, for the past three hundred years, hurricanes have altered lives and landscapes along the Georgia-South Carolina seaboard.
Barlow draws on her extensive experience and insight as a water activist to lay out a set of key principles that show the way forward to what she calls a “water-secure and water-just world.”