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Enclosing Water: Nature and Political Economy in a Mediterranean Valley, 1796–1916
An environmental history of the Industrial Revolution, as inscribed on the Liri valley in Italy’s Central Apennines.
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A Rugged Nation: Mountains and the Making of Modern Italy
The nationalization of Italian mountains has been a story of military conquest and resistance, ecological and social transformation, expropriating resources and imposing meanings…
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The Third Dimension: A Comparative History of Mountains in the Modern Era
This book considers the variegated world of mountains and their development during the last five hundred years.
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Bao Maohong on "Landscape Transformation in China"
Bao Maohong, Carson Fellow from July to December 2011, talks about his work on landscape transformation in China.
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Stephen Bell on "The Transformation of Land Use in Brazil"
Stephen Bell, Carson Fellow from June to August 2011, talks about his research concerning the the transformation of land use in Brazil.
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Paul Josephson on "An Environmental History of the Soviet Arctic"
Paul Josephson discusses the project he worked on during his Carson Fellowship, from August to December 2011: an environmental history of the Soviet Arctic.
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Reinhold Leinfelder on “The Anthropocene”
Reinhold Leinfelder, Affiliated Carson Professor as of 2012, speaks about his research concerning the Anthropocene.
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Industrialized Nature: Brute Force Technology and the Transformation of the Natural World
For nearly a century, we have relied increasingly on science and technology to harness natural forces, but at what environmental and social cost?
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Changing Deserts: Integrating People and Their Environment
This book draws on the diversity of papers on deserts and drylands presented at the first Oxford Interdisciplinary Deserts Conference in March 2010.
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Libby, Montana
A small town in northwestern Montana is beset by the worst case of community-wide exposure to a toxic substance in US history.