Arcadia
The Fen River in Taiyuan, China: Ecology, Revitalization, and Urban Culture
This case study reflects China’s environmental governance as a constantly evolving structure within the “environment-politics-society” nexus.
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Multimedia | book profile
West Germany and the Iron Curtain: Environment, Economy, and Culture in the Borderlands
Astrid M. Eckert’s West Germany and the Iron Curtain takes a fresh look at the history of Cold War Germany and the German reunification process from the spatial perspective of the West German borderlands that emerged along the volatile inter-German border after 1945.
Multimedia | journal article
"Breathing Air with Heft: An Experiential Report on Environmental Law and Public Health in China"
This article explores the intersections of daily life and environmental law in modern China. With comparative perspectives on analogous challenges in the United States, it reports on these critical domestic challenges for China at a pivotal moment in its reemergence as a dominant world power.
Multimedia | journal article
Review of Ein Recht auf saubere Luft? Umweltkonflikte am Beginn des Industriezeitalters, by Michael Stolberg
Stolberg examines the history of air pollution as a scientific, social and political issue from 1800 to 1860.
Arcadia
Landscape of Insecurity: The Intricacies of Environmental Changes in Nigeria’s Oil-Rich Niger Delta Region
Once a benefit to humanity but now a scourge, the environment of the Niger Delta has been transformed into a haven for violence, militancy, and criminality.
Multimedia | book, full-text
Environmental and Social Justice in the City: Historical Perspectives
The world is full of environmental injustices and inequalities; yet few European historians have tackled these subjects head on, nor have they explored their relationships with social inequalities.
Multimedia | journal
Hellbender Journal 5, no. 2
Hellbender Journal is a voice for forest activists working towards the protection of the Allegheny Forests in Pennsylvania. In this issue, Rachel Martin takes over as editor. The issue focuses on the Forest Service’s opening of the Allegheny National forest to clearcutting, the effects on local people in Lynch, Pennsylvania, and the response of activists.
Multimedia | journal article
"The Role of NGOs in Environmental Policy Failures in a Developing Country: The Mismanagement of Jamaica's Coral Reefs"
In this paper, Michael Haley and Anthony Clayton discuss the role of NGOs in environmental policy failures in Jamaica.
Arcadia
Environmental Sustainability and Technological Change: The Slurry-Tanks Conflict in Galician Agriculture (1999–2019)
This article investigates the problem of defining technological change based on environmental sustainability criteria in Galicia.
Perspectives
Asian Environments: Connections across Borders, Landscapes, and Times
This issue of RCC Perspectives offers insights into similarities and differences in the ways people in Asia have tried to master and control the often unpredictable and volatile environments of which they were part