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Politics, Pollution and Pandas: An Environmental Memoir
A memoir of the author’s life and his strong interests in wildlife, conservation, and major environmental organizations.
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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.
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Environmental Regulation in China: Institutions, Enforcement, and Compliance
An analysis of environmental policy in China with a focus on the regulation of water pollution.
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Smelter Smoke in North America: The Politics of Transborder Pollution
Chronicles how industry developed a continental perspective in a shared regional space, the mineralized West, and how successful efforts of governments and citizens to protect the environment evolved.
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The Chimney of the World: A History of Smoke Pollution in Victorian and Edwardian Manchester
Stephen Mosley examines three aspects of Victorian and Edwardian Manchester’s smoke situation: its magnitude and impact on the town, the rhetoric and culture of smoke, and the (unsuccessful) campaigns to control it.
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West Germany and the Iron Curtain: Environment, Economy, and Culture in the Borderlands
Astrid M. Eckert’s West Germany and the Iron Curtain takes a fresh look at the history of Cold War Germany and the German reunification process from the spatial perspective of the West German borderlands that emerged along the volatile inter-German border after 1945.
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Cleaning Up the Great Lakes: From Cooperation to Confrontation
An account of how water pollution control policy emerged during the seminal decades of environmental activism, with reference to the largest group of freshwater lakes in the world: the Great Lakes.
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A Venetian Island: Environment, History and Change in Burano
Based on ethnographic and archival data, this in-depth study of the Venetian island of Burano shows how its inhabitants develop their sense of a distinct identity.
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Hazardous Chemicals: Agents of Risk and Change, 1800–2000
This collection investigates the emergence of specific toxic, pathogenic, carcinogenic, and ecologically harmful chemicals as well as the scientific, cultural and legislative responses they have prompted.
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Eco-nomics: What Everyone Should Know About Economics and the Environment
According to Richard Stroup, the protection of the environment can be safely left to the operation of capital markets and “shareholder power.”