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Believing in Place: A Spiritual Geography of the Great Basin
In his work, Francaviglia proposes “to tell the story of how the Great Basin’s environment resonates in the spiritual lives of all its people”.
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Three Mile Island: A Nuclear Crisis in Historical Perspective
This book is the first comprehensive account of the causes, context, and consequences of the the worst accident in the history of commercial nuclear power in the United States, which occurred at Three Mile Island.
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Five Billion Years of Global Change: A History of the Land
Denis Wood tells the story of our entire past, from the Big Bang to the World Wide Web. Five Billion Years of Global Change takes readers through the formation of the Earth’s atmosphere, oceans, continents, and mountains; the origin of life; the evolution of the human species; the spread of agricultural production; and the growth of international trade.
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Landscapes of Conflict: The Oregon Story, 1940-2000
The second volume of Robbins’s environmental history of Oregon.
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Fish versus Power: An Environmental History of the Fraser River
An environmental history of the Fraser River (British Columbia) and the attempts to dam it for power and to defend it for salmon.
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Troubles with Turtles: Cultural Understandings of the Environment on a Greek Island
Troubles with Turtles provides an enthusiastic and provocative anthropological account of human-environment relationships in the island community of the village Vassilikos, Zakynthos, Greece.
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Roundtable Review of Making a Green Machine by Finn Arne Jørgensen
Peter Thorsheim, Heike Weber, Tim Cooper, and Carl A. Zimring discuss Finn Arne Jørgensen’s book on the Scandinavian beverage container deposit-refund system.
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The Land We Share: Private Property and the Common Good
Is private ownership an inviolate right that individuals can wield as they see fit?
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Thinking about the Environment: Our Debt to the Classical and Medieval Past
The contributions to this volume explore and uncover contemporary scholarship’s debt to the classical and medieval past.
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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.