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Living Downstream
The film documents Sandra Steingraber’s travels across North America, during which the ecologist and writer works toward breaking the silence over cancer and its environmental links.
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Foundation of the Oekonomische Gesellschaft Bern
A classic proponent of the trans-European Economic Enlightenment, the Oekonomische Gesellschaft Bern, founded in 1759, strove to optimize the use of the region’s resources in order to protect the sovereignty of the state of Bern. Its significance should not be measured according to its immediate practical effects, but rather in view of how its ideas for new forms of scientifically based natural resource usage unfolded over the long term.
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Surveying the Record: North American Scientific Exploration to 1930
A review of a collection of essays on the history and adventure of American exploration with several references to sophisticated analyses of trigonometric surveys, the science of empire building, and natural history exchange networks.
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Horizontal Yellow: Nature and History in the Near Southwest
Horizontal Yellow is a book about history and nature and humankind’s impact on nature in the Near Southwest, the region of yellowed grass stretching from the Rocky Mountains’ eastern range to Louisiana’s bayou country, and from southern Kansas to the Gulf Coast.
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Gesellschaft und Ernährung um 1000: Eine Archäologie des Essens
Gesellschaft und Ernahrung is a lavishly illustrated catalog of an exhibition on the history of food that ran at the Food Museum in Vevey, Switzerland, in 2000.
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Contested Mountains: Nature, Development and Environment in the Cairngorms Region of Scotland, 1880–1980
This contribution to the literature on the recent environmental history of Britain is an exhaustively detailed study of the interplay between tourism, conservation, and landownership in one of the most popular tourist areas in Scotland.
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Il lago e la comunità: Storia di Bientina un "castello" di pescatori nella Toscana moderna
Andrea Zagli writes about Tuscany’s Bientina Lake and its fishery, linking the lake environment to population, government, and economies.
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Faces of Environmental Racism: Confronting Issues of Global Justice
Laura Westra and Bill Lawson’s edited collection centers on the legal, political, economic, social, and health issues surrounding environmental racism.
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Common and Contested Ground: A Human and Environmental History of the Northwestern Plains
Taking an environmental history perspective of the nothwestern plains, this book represents an excellent example of how to tie the human experience to the limits and opportunities presented by environment.
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Economic Growth, Energy Consumption and CO2 Emissions in Sweden, 1800-2000
This book presents a rich and extensive empirical study on biophysical aspects of two hundred years of economic history for Sweden.