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Transitions in the Niger Delta: Oil, Poverty, and Environmental Degradation
Helbert raises the issue of justice in energy transitions by looking at the discrimination faced by women in oil regions of Nigeria.
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Storytelling and Environmental History: Experiences from Germany and Italy
Through a combination of memory, experience, and archival research, this volume explores the connection between storytelling and the writing of environmental histories in Germany and Italy.
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New Histories of Pacific Whaling – Revised Edition
This volume provides new histories of Pacific whaling from untold perspectives.
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Making Sense of Water: A Personal Quest into the History of Irrigation
Wilko Graf von Hardenberg discusses the ways water management policies shaped the landscape of his childhood during the years of the Fascist regime in Italy.
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What I Found at the Bottom of a Reservoir
Fabian Zimmer discusses how the perceptions of dam visitors were actively shaped through public open days throughout the twentieth century.
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The Elbe: Or, How to Make Sense of a River?
Sophie Lange discusses the environmental history of the Elbe river in Hamburg and an environmental dispute arising from mercury pollution between the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic.
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Places in Translation: Of Rivers and Dams in Central Asia
Flora J. Roberts discusses the environmental history of the Syr Darya river in the Ferghana Valley and the consequences arising from the damming of the river.
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Life Among the Giants: Translating Ecology into History through Mountain Studies
Claudio de Majo argues that the notion of the commons, often seen as an economically motivated notion, could also be seen in relation to metabolic cycles, both in the mountains of Sila in Italy and in the uplands of the Serra Gaucha in southern Brazil.
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The Most Famous Land|S̶c̶a̶p̶e̶
Through a combination of historical research and environmental fieldwork focusing on photographic imagery taken during World War I, Noemi Quagliati documents the environmental recovery of the former Western Front.
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(Under) Grounding Italian Colonialism: Practices of Historical Displacement
Roberta Biasillo traces Italy’s colonial engagements in Africa through a reflection sources uncovered in the Italian archives.