Book excerpt from former Rachel Carson Center fellow Alan MacEachern’s The Institute of Man and Resources: An Environmental Fable. Learn about how Prince Edward Island in Canada tackled the oil crisis of the 1970s by investing in renewable resources.
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An enduring legacy of the antinuclear movement is its construction of a narrative connecting human survival to nature’s beneficence.
Fencing for biosecurity reasons is a contentious topic among pig farmers, environmental organizations, politicians, and borderland communities.
A monograph on the postwar fear of scarcity and the influence of “neo-Malthusians.”
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, William Carruthers is interviewed on his recent book, Flooded Pasts: UNESCO, Nubia, and the Recolonization of Archaeology.
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Malcolm Harris is interviewed on his recent book, Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World.
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 episode from the New Books Network podcast, Sritama Chatterjee is interviewed on her recent essay, Off-Shore Aesthetics.
This article situates contemporary debates over kangaroo-population management within Australia’s violent history of settler-colonial occupation and attendant environmental transformations.
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Sara Rich is interviewed on her recent book, Mushroom.