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Conservation in the Progressive Era: Classic Texts
The documents collected in the book reveal the various and sometimes conflicting uses of the term “conservation” and the contested nature of the reforms it described.
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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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Toxic Drift: Pesticides and Health in the Post-World War II South
On the use, abuse, and regulation of pesticides from World War II until 1970.
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Umwelt-Geschichte: Arbeitsfelder, Forschungsansätze, Perspektiven [Environmental History: Fields, Approaches, Perspectives]
An interdisciplinary collection of essays that investigates the various approaches and research fields of environmental history.
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The Chicago River: A Natural and Unnatural History
A biography of the Chicago River.
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Restoring Cursed Earth: Appraising Environmental Policy Reforms in Eastern Europe and Russia
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Aiken, Katherine, Idaho's Bunker Hill: The Rise and Fall of A Great Mining Company, 1885-1981
Katherine G. Aiken traces Bunker Hill’s evolution from the mine’s discovery in 1885 to the company’s closure in 1981.
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Dragons with Clay Feet? Transition, Sustainable Land Use, and Rural Environment in China and Vietnam
Presents state-of-the-art research on the impact of ongoing and anticipated economic policy and institutional reforms on agricultural development and sustainable rural resource in two East-Asian transition (and developing) economies—China and Vietnam.
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Eagle Glassheim on "Cleaning Czechoslovakia's Border Lands"
Eagle Glassheim, Carson Fellow from February until April 2012, talks about his research project on the ethnic, social, and environmental transformation of Czechoslovakia’s Border Lands after 1945.
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Inescapable Ecologies: A History of Environment, Disease, and Knowledge
An original history of “ecological” ideas of the body as it unfolded in California’s Central Valley.