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"Interstate Water Pollution Problems and Elusive Federal Water Pollution Policy in the United States, 1900–1948"
This article examines water pollution and its control in the United States from the turn of the twentieth century until after the Second World War, a period during which water pollution became an interstate problem.
Multimedia | journal article
"'A Network of Trust': Measuring and Monitoring Air Pollution in British Cities, 1912–1960"
This paper explores how an expert body, The Investigation of Atmospheric Pollution, was established in the face of different interests and agendas, the importance (and difficulties) of technical standard-setting with reference to environmental pollution, and, finally, the uses of environmental monitoring.
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Pollution, Local Activism, and the Politics of Development in the Canadian North
Sandlos and Keeling explore Indigenous resistance to arsenic pollution. Indigenous communities mobilized knowledge around environmental pollution and its health impacts. The authors show how this resistance to environmental racism is connected to other Indigenous struggles over industrial development and to issues such as land claims, sovereignty, and colonial dispossession.
Multimedia | podcast
Nature's Past episode 47: "Pollution Probe and the History of Environmental Activism in Ontario”
In episode 47 of Nature’s Past, a podcast on Canadian environmental history, author Ryan O’Connor discusses the ENGO Pollution Probe and the early years of environmental activism in Canada with Sean Kheraj.
Multimedia | journal article
"Were Health Resorts Bad for your Health? Coastal Pollution Control Policy in England, 1945–76"
A case study of beach pollution illustrates economic and political influences that have shaped environmental policy in Britain.
Multimedia | book profile
Environmental Regulation in China: Institutions, Enforcement, and Compliance
An analysis of environmental policy in China with a focus on the regulation of water pollution.
Multimedia | book profile
Smelter Smoke in North America: The Politics of Transborder Pollution
Chronicles how industry developed a continental perspective in a shared regional space, the mineralized West, and how successful efforts of governments and citizens to protect the environment evolved.
Multimedia | journal article
"Responses to Air Pollution Based on Historical and Current Policies in the EU and ASEAN"
The authors seek to ascertain if ASEAN can respond to regional human-induced environmental problems given existing problems of national sovereignty and the interest-based character of ASEAN-type associations, since ASEAN’s goal, in contrast to that of the EU, has been regional cooperation rather than regional integration. The aim is to highlight the status of the respective policy frameworks and exemplify areas in which the regions can learn from one another in the field of air pollution, given its global relevance for climate change.
Multimedia | journal article
"Limitations of Environmental Success Without Successful Environmental Policy"
From the late 1950s onward, Helsinki experienced air pollution from energy generation, industries, waste incineration, and traffic. After having been at its worst in the late 1960s the air quality in Helsinki eventually improved remarkably. This paper examines the reasons for this environmentally advantageous outcome, which was achieved in the absence of a particularly successful environmental policy.