Nature's Past episode 55: "Asbestos Mining and Environmental Health"
In episode 55 of Nature’s Past, a podcast on Canadian environmental history, SEan Kheraj speaks to Jessica van Horssen about her new book, A Town Called Asbestos.
In episode 55 of Nature’s Past, a podcast on Canadian environmental history, SEan Kheraj speaks to Jessica van Horssen about her new book, A Town Called Asbestos.
In episode 56 of Nature’s Past, a podcast on Canadian environmental history, Sean Kheraj joins Joanna Dean and Christabelle Sethna to discuss their new book Animal Metropolis: Histories of Human-Animal Relations in Urban Canada and, more broadly, the history of animals and cities.
In episode 57 of Nature’s Past, a podcast on Canadian environmental history, three historians based outside of Canada explain their research and reasons for studying Canadian environmental history to Sean Kheraj.
In episode 58 of Nature’s Past, a podcast on Canadian environmental history, Sean Kheraj discusses key questions concerning the development of the field of Canadian environmental history with seven environmental historians.
Outdoor recreational access in the form of Swedish right to public access may provide people with the opportunity to connect to nature.
Digital tools reveal a geographic logic to the violence of Pontiac’s War.
This volume explores the “green city” concept from a global and interdisciplinary perspective. Contributions examine the conflicts inherent in eco-modernization and investigate opportunities to respond meaningfully to urban environmental challenges.
Melosi analyzes the Emerald City in L. Frank Baum’s novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz to highlight how limited perspectives on urban greenness once were.
Rigby reimagines green cities from an interdisciplinary environmental humanities perspective to see how they can also be sites of more-than-human prosperity.
Dorothee Brantz and Avi Sharma discuss the history of green urban visions, looking at historical precedents of the modern green city.