The Search for the Ultimate Sink: Urban Pollution in Historical Perspective
A collection of essays exploring the production and disposal of wastes in the American city since 1850.
A collection of essays exploring the production and disposal of wastes in the American city since 1850.
Covering a wide geographical range of European countries, the articles in this edited collection investigate urban disasters such as floods, fires, earthquakes, and epidemic diseases.
An early eco-apocalyptic novel set in the wilderness of post-urban England.
This comic The Urban Planet: How Cities Save Our Future condenses into an illustrated story the fundamental findings of Humanity on the Move: Unlocking the Transformative Power of Cities, a report published by the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU).
Excerpt from Greening the City: Nature in French Towns from the 17th Century.
Death and Life of Nature in Asian Cities explores the encounter between two processes that are unfolding in diverse patterns across Asia.
Excerpt from the The Swamp of East Naples.
As Australian cities face uncertain water futures, what insights can the history of Aboriginal and settler relationships with water yield?
In this book, Mark Luccarelli pushes past unproductive mind/body debates by rooting the rise of environmental awareness in the political and geographical history of the US.
Full text of Rachel Carson Center director Christof Mauch’s Paradise Blues: Travels Through American Environmental History.