A History of Environmental Politics Since 1945
An overview of environmental affairs in the United States, from the 1940s onward.
An overview of environmental affairs in the United States, from the 1940s onward.
An examination of the relationship between African Americans and the environment in US history.
A comparative history of environmental policy development in Germany and the United States from 1880 to 1970, and the rise of civic activism to combat air pollution.
A history of the role of American society in shaping the policies of the United States Forest Service.
A collection of essays addressing the collaboration of human and natural forces in the creation of cities, the countryside, and empires.
This book offers a history of the conservation movement’s origins and provides a context for understanding contemporary enviromental problems and possible solutions.
The book examines the natural and economic resource competition between Phoenix and Tucson and the other factors contributing to the divergent growth of the two cities.
A collection of essays examining the tortured environmental history of Pittsburgh, a region blessed with an abundance of natural resources as well as a history of intensive industrial development.
Garbage, wastewater, and hazardous waste: these are the lenses through which Melosi views nineteenth- and twentieth-century America. In broad overviews and specific case studies, Melosi treats the relationship between industrial expansion and urban growth from an ecological perspective.
A comprehensive history of the development of Houston, examining the factors that have facilitated large-scale energy production and unprecedented growth—and the environmental cost of that development.