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"Are There Any Environmental Rights?"
This paper extends the argument in H.L.A. Hart’s “Are there any natural rights?” to argue that there is an environmental moral right against pollution.
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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.
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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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The Mountains Are Calling: Tourists and the Unmaking of Yosemite National Park
Excerpt from The Mountains Are Calling: Tourists and the Unmaking of Yosemite National Park by Michael W. Childers.
Multimedia | film profile
Soils2Sea: Reducing Nutrient Loadings Into the Baltic Sea
The film highlights the pollution of the Baltic Sea from agricultural run-off and wastewaters, particularly in the Kocinka catchment of Poland. It offers multiple perspectives from the range of stakeholders, and is the outcome of the Soils2Sea project which ran from 2014 to 2017.
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Natur und Industrie im Sozialismus: Eine Umweltgeschichte der DDR
Natur und Industrie im Sozialismus challenges common conceptions that portray the environmental history of East Germany as one of decline, highlighting the existence of advocates of environmental measures within the socialist party.
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Interview with David B Williams, author of A Human and Natural History of Puget Sound
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, David B Williams is interviewed on his recent book, A Human and Natural History of Puget Sound.
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“A Different Story in the Anthropocene: Brazil’s Post-Colonial Quest for Oil (1930–1975)”
In this article, Antoine Acker provides a different perspective on the Anthropocene.
Multimedia | film profile
Das Blaue Gold im Garten Eden [Blue Gold in the Garden of Eden]
The film examines the social and ecological consequences of the Turkey’s South-East-Anatolia-Project (GAP), designed to enable energy production and irrigation on a huge scale.
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Muddy Thinking in the Mississippi River Delta: A Call for Reclamation
This book examines how the unruly Mississippi River and its muddy delta shaped the people, culture, and governance of the region.