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Photograph of Rachel Carson testifying before Congress, 1963
Rachel Carson testifying before the Senate Government Operations subcommitte.
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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.
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.
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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"Cows are Better than Condos, or How Economists Help Solve Environmental Problems"
This essay explores three case studies that illustrate the exemplary use of economic analysis in environmental decision-making.
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"'Getting Rich Is Glorious': Environmental Values in the People's Republic of China"
Paul G. Harris analyzes the reasons for pollution and overuse of resources in China which have profound implications for the Chinese people and the world.
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Hazardous Chemicals: Agents of Risk and Change, 1800–2000
This collection investigates the emergence of specific toxic, pathogenic, carcinogenic, and ecologically harmful chemicals as well as the scientific, cultural and legislative responses they have prompted.
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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.
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Beschädigte Vegetation und sterbender Wald: Zur Entstehung eines Umweltproblems in Deutschland 1893–1970
Beschädigte Vegetation und sterbender Wald traces the history of the environmental problem of air pollution and its damaging effects on forests in Germany.
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"Admiring the High Mountains: The Aesthetics of Environment"
John Haldane discusses the need to consider issues relating to the aesthetics of the environment, using a little known theory of Aquinas.