Pollution and Industrialization of the Neva and Viennese Danube in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

In this chapter of their virtual exhibition “‘Commanding, Sovereign Stream’: The Neva and the Viennese Danube in the History of Imperial Metropolitan Centers,” the authors discuss similarities and differences in the history of water supply, pollution, and waste management in St. Petersburg and Vienna.

“Commanding, Sovereign Stream”:
The Neva and the Viennese Danube in the History of Imperial Metropolitan Centers

The exhibition aims to reveal and visualize the power of mighty rivers so crucially important for the history of St. Petersburg and Vienna—the major imperial centers of continental Europe in the modern era.

Gertrud Haidvogl, Alexei Kraikovski, and Julia Lajus

About the author

Haidvogl, Gertrud

Institute of Hydrobiology and Aquatic Ecosystem Management (IHG), University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Austria

Gertrud Haidvogl studied history at the University of Vienna. She works at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, and is specialized in the history of riverine landscapes and historical changes of fish populations. Haidvogl is a member of the Center for Environmental History Vienna.

Kraikovski, Alexei

Laboratory for Environmental and Technological History at National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia

Alexei Kraikovski graduated from St. Petersburg University and got his PhD in history from the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2005. He is Associate Professor of History and Senior Research Fellow at at the Laboratory for Environmental and Technological History at National Research University Higher School of Economics. His research interests include marine environmental history, urban history, the history of urban rivers, economic history, historical geography, and resource studies.

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Lajus, Julia

Laboratory for Environmental and Technological History at National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia

Julia Lajus has a Candidate of Science degree (Russian PhD degree) from the Institute for the History of Science and Technology, Russian Academy of Sciences. She is Associate Professor of History and Leading Research Fellow at at the Laboratory for Environmental and Technological History at National Research University Higher School of Economics. Her research interests include the environmental history of biological resources, especially in marine and polar areas, and the history of field sciences such as fisheries and oceanography. Julia Lajus served as the vice president of the European Society of Environmental History (ESEH) from 2011-2015.

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Tuberculosis in Echuca, and the Therapeutic Migration to Southeastern Australia (1889–1908)

by Rebecca Le Get

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Arcadia, Autumn 2018, no. 29

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“Infection”

For the special section “Living Lexicon for the Environmental Humanities,” Celia Lowe reflects on the meanings of “infection” and the problems these pose for the Environmental Humanities.

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"The Political Life of Cancer: Beatriz da Costa’s Dying for the Other and Anti-cancer Survival Kit"

Lindsay Kelley investigates the multispecies power structures playing out in two of Beatriz da Costa’s projects, Dying for the Other and the Anti-cancer Survival Kit.

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"The Viral Creep: Elephants and Herpes in Times of Extinction"

In this special issue on Multispecies Studies, Celia Lowe and Ursula Münster present three open-ended stories of elephant care in times of death and loss: at places of confinement and elephant suffering like the zoos in Seattle and Zürich as well as in the conflict-ridden landscapes of South India, where the country’s last free-ranging elephants live. They call attention to the Asian elephant, a species that is currently facing extinction through the elephant endotheliotropic herpesvirus.

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Hypothyroidism in Switzerland

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Perspectives Issue 2012/3

The aim of this study is to present the theme from three different but complementary perspectives. The medical perspective lays the groundwork regarding the pathophysiology, the clinical picture, and the differential diagnosis of the condition. The historical perspective presents contemporary scientific studies on conscription and published data on goiter and cretinism as endemic manifestations of hypothyroidism (since 1900), and the archaeoanthropological perspective reports one of the first documentations of the condition in an archaeological population from Switzerland (11th–15th century AD).

Mendocino Environmental Center Newsletter, Issue 14

In this issue of Mendocino Environmental Center Newsletter, Susan Crane discusses who are the real vandals; Vicki Oldham writes about Clinton’s Forest Plan; and Mary Pjerrou brings up the issue of logging companies using new tactics to avoid the Timber Harvest Plan (THP) process.