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Arcadia
Half a Century of Public Participation to Stop Pollution in the Alviela River, from 1957 to Today
This article examines mobilization and resistance against pollution in the Alviela River in the Santarém municipality, Portugal, since the 1950s.
Arcadia
“Moby Dick” in the Rhine: How a Beluga Whale Raised Awareness of Water Pollution in West Germany
In 1966, a stray beluga whale swimming up and down the polluted Lower Rhine caught the media’s attention in West Germany.
Multimedia | journal article
"Accepting Father Rhine? Technological Fixes, Vigilance, and Transnational Lobbies as 'European' Strategies of Dutch Municipal Water Supplies 1900–1975"
In this article Disco describes the repertoires developed by the municipal waterworks of two large Dutch cities, Amsterdam and Rotterdam. Two main repertoires are visible: 1) ‘coping’ by means of technical fixes and vigilance and 2) ‘transnational technopolitics’ aimed at institutionalising regulatory regimes to curb pollution.
Multimedia | journal article
"The Paradox of Smokeless Fuels: Gas, Coke and the Environment in Britain, 1813–1949"
In Britain, a large proportion of the soil and groundwater pollution that occurred during the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century came from gasworks and coke plants…
Exhibition chapter
Pollution and Industrialization of the Neva and Viennese Danube in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries | Neva and Danube Rivers
In this chapter of their virtual exhibition “‘Commanding, Sovereign Stream’: The Neva and the Viennese Danube in the History of Imperial Metropolitan Centers,” the authors discuss similarities and differences in the history of water supply, pollution, and waste management in St. Petersburg and Vienna.
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.
Exhibition chapter
Containing Contamination | Toxic Relationships
Chapter 2 of the virtual exhibition Toxic Relationships: Uncovering the Worlds of Hazardous Waste.
