The Swamp of East Naples: Environmental History of an Unruly Suburb
Excerpt from the The Swamp of East Naples.
Excerpt from the The Swamp of East Naples.
Historian Robert Gioielli, Carson fellow from September 2010 to June 2011, speaks about his research project, “Hard Asphalt and Heavy Metals: An Environmental History of the Urban Crisis.”
This film focuses on an elderly woman determined to remain in her beloved village, even as demolition begins to make room for urban expansion.
The world is full of environmental injustices and inequalities; yet few European historians have tackled these subjects head on, nor have they explored their relationships with social inequalities.
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Pavla Šimková is interviewed on her recent book, Urban Archipelago: An Environmental History of the Boston Harbor Islands.
Making more beer for eighteenth-century London’s growing population increased the need for clean water. Efforts to guarantee supplies to the brewers had an effect on both urban and rural landscapes.
Combinando memoria, esperienza e ricerca d’archivio, questo volume esplora la connessione tra lo storytelling e la storia ambientale in Germania e in Italia.
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Matthew Gandy is interviewed on his recent book, Natura Urbana: Ecological Constellations in Urban Space .
In this Springs article, landscape historian Sonja Dümpelmann and Rachel Carson Center editor Pauline Kargruber discuss plants in an urban environment.
Interactive story map by Paolo Gruppuso on urban ecologies in Latina, Italy.