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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.
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"The Quality of Life: What Quality? Whose Life?"
Sir Crispin Tickell scans what industrial countries can and have to do in order to give a lead in global arrangements to alleviate economic and ecological problems.
Multimedia | journal article
"The Political Economy of Environmental Movements: U.S. Experience and Global Movements"
Michael Everett examines how environmental movements develop and how they deal with economic counterforces and motivate political actors to pass effective environmental regulations.
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Episode 4: "Environmental Justice on the Hamilton Waterfront"
Ken Cruikshank and Nancy Bouchier’s research on the environmental history of the Hamilton, Ontario, waterfront since 1955 looks at who determines the environmental health of a community.
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Effluent America: Cities, Industry, Energy, and the Environment
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.
Multimedia | interviews and talks
Lenz, Garth, "The True Cost of Oil"
Garth Lenz has played a major part in the fight against Alberta Tar Sands Mining through his photojournalism.
Multimedia | interviews and talks
Jackson, Jeremy, “How We Wrecked the Ocean”
A leader in the study of the ecology and evolution of marine organisms, Jeremy Jackson is known for his deep understanding of geological time.
Multimedia | journal
Wild Earth 2, no. 4
Wild Earth 2, no. 4 with essays on environmental devastation and the war in Lebanon, the Colorado River delta, reef protection, and zoos and the “psychology of extinction.”
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"Valuation as Revelation and Reconciliation"
Tom O’Riordan discusses valuation as revelation and reconciliation, arguing that a more legitimate participatory form of democracy is required to reveal valuation through consensual negotiation.
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"Attitudes and Issues Preventing Bans on Toxic Lead Shot and Sinkers in North America and Europe"
Vernon G. Thomas discuss attitudes and issues preventing bans on toxic lead shot and sinkers in North America and Europe, to point out that despite the parallels between these countries’ reforms, there has been little parity between the banning of lead shot and fishing sinkers.