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"Tensions and Dilemmas of Ecotopianism"
This paper examines some of many tensions associated with the utopian propensity that underlies much thinking and action in radical environmentalism.
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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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“Environmental History and the Construction of Nature and Landscape: The Case of the 'Landscaping' of the Jutland heath”
Olwig asserts that the discipline we now know as environmental history owes a great deal of its impetus to the emergence at the beginning of the nineteenth century of a socially engaged and environmentally committed interdisciplinary ‘proto-discipline.’
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Carson's Silent Spring: A Reader's Guide
Carson’s Silent Spring: A Reader’s Guide provides an in-depth analysis and contextualization of Silent Spring. It also surveys the lasting impact the text has had on the environmentalist movement in the last fifty years.
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To Life! Eco Art in Pursuit of a Sustainable Planet
This book documents the burgeoning eco art movement from A to Z, presenting a panorama of artistic responses to environmental concerns.
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Seeds of Knowledge: From Back-to-the-Land to Urban Gardening
Janovicek’s article studies the back-to-the-land movement of the 1960s and 1970s. By learning, preserving, and sharing traditional agricultural skills and knowledge, back-to-the-landers contributed to the revitalization of local food economies. The links they made connected them to others in their communities and to other generations of activists.
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ASLE EcoCast: The Ego and the Eco: Alex Menrisky and the Identity Politics of Ecology
In this episode of ASLE’s official podcast, Jemma Deer and Brandon Galm interviews Alex Menrisky on his recent book Wild Abandon: American Literature and the Identity Politics of Ecology.
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The Bishnoi: Revisiting Religious Environmentalism and Traditional Forest and Wildlife Management in the Thar Desert
This article traces how Bishnoi religious beliefs have informed environmental activism as well as present-day forest conservation and wildlife-protection strategies in the Thar Desert, India.
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“Imagining Rivers: The Aesthetics, History, and Politics of American Waterways. A Conversation Between Lawrence Buell and Christof Mauch”
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"Silent Spring at 50"
A comparative analysis of the reception of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring in the United States and in the UK.