Water: A Natural History
An environmental history of waterways in the United States.
An environmental history of waterways in the United States.
The volume of air traffic increased drastically over the past 50 years as a result of globalization and mass tourism and has a significant impact on climate change.
This article is a critique of the “open door” development policy promoted by the Liberian government after World War II, and shows the environmental and social impact of state reliance on foreign direct investment.
The Canal de Marseille has allowed an improvement in the water supply in the city of Marseille, but also induced environmental issues in its first decades due to strong suspended sediment fluxes.
This article presents and discusses the papers presented at the 5th IWHA Conference under the theme ‘Water, Food and the Economy’.
The First International Conference on Iceberg Utilization, held at Iowa State University in October 1977, contributed to the formation of nascent hydrologics in the late 1970s.
This collection highlights three quintessentially Canadian themes: seasonality, links between mobility and natural resource development, and urbanites’ experiences of the environment through mobility. It divides the intersection of environmental and mobility history into two approaches. The chapters in the first section deal primarily with the construction and productive use of mobility technologies and infrastructure, as well as their environmental constraints and consequences. The chapters in the second section focus on consumers’ uses of those vehicles and pathways: on pleasure travel, tourism, and recreational mobility.
Sean Patrick Adams explores coal storage and expansion in nineteenth-century America.
In this chapter of the German-language version of her virtual exhibition “Mensch und Natur in der deutschen Literatur (Human-Nature Relations in German Literature),” Sabine Wilke discusses texts that register transformations of landscapes or take a position on their causes. For the English-language version of this exhibition, click here.