This environmental history of ancient civilizations seeks to demonstrate that environmental degradation is not exclusively a problem of the modern world.
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An interdisciplinary collection of essays that investigate the history of land ownership in the United States, including with reference to related conflicts with environmentalists.
A collection on the environmental history of the Middle East that covers five broad themes: agriculture and pastoralism; water; nature and culture; marine environments, and environmental monitoring.
Green Versus Gold examines California’s environmental history, ranging from its Native American past to conflicts and movements of recent decades.
James C. Williams’s history of energy development and use in California.
Examines the cultural history of English explorations of Earth’s polar regions.
The documentary contrasts the results of using genetically-modified crops purchased from multinational agrochemical corporations with the maintenance of community seedbanks and biodiversity.
Jens Schanze documents the impact on the residents of Otzenrath, a seven hundred-year-old village in North-Rhine Westphalia, following their relocation in order to make way for the Garzweiler II open-pit, brown coal mine.
Reflects upon the short period of geological time during which humans have inhabited the Earth, raising questions as to how much time the human race may have left on the planet, and what might happen after the human race—and even Earth itself—disappears.
Director Bernhard Sallmann returns to Lusatia to complete his trilogy about the region by exploring its dreamscapes, orienting himself somewhere between the scars of an industrial past and signs that nature is beginning to reclaim the degraded environments that remain.