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Transforming Socio-Natures in Turkey: Landscapes, State and Environmental Movements
This book is an exploration of the environmental makings and contested historical trajectories of environmental change in Turkey.
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Brand, Stewart, "4 Environmental Heresies"
Stewart Brand talks about cities, nuclear power, genetic modification, and geo-engineering.
Multimedia | journal article
"Not Out of the Woods: Preserving the Human in Environmental Architecture"
In this article, Andrew Light and Aurora Wallace highlight several examples of how environmental architecture has combined success and failure at taking a broader view of environmental questions, with a specific focus on one green skyscraper that may be good for the natural environment but not necessarily for the human environment of the city.
Multimedia | book profile
Green Versus Gold: Sources in California's Environmental History
Green Versus Gold examines California’s environmental history, ranging from its Native American past to conflicts and movements of recent decades.
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Defending the Arctic Refuge: A Photographer, an Indigenous Nation, and a Fight for Environmental Justice
Excerpt from Defending the Arctic Refuge: A Photographer, an Indigenous Nation, and a Fight for Environmental Justice.
Multimedia | journal article
“The Armchair Traveler’s Guide to Digital Environmental Humanities”
Finn Arne Jørgensen brings Wolfgang Schivelbusch’s analysis of the relationship between technology, media, and the perception of landscape into the digital age as a way of examining the spatiality of digital media and the natural world.
Multimedia | journal article
Hatmaker, Susie, "On Mattering: A Coal Ash Flood and the Limits of Environmental Knowledge"
Susie Hatmaker investigates the largest flood of coal ash in United States history in 2008 as an event at once monumental and insignificant.
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"Tibetan Buddhism, Wetland Transformation, and Environmentalism in Tibetan Pastoral Areas of Western China"
The author investigates the lives of Tibetan pastoralists in alpine wetlands, how they understand wetlands, and how politics, market forces, and religious norms cooperate to produce their relationships with their livestock and their lands.
Multimedia | film profile
Waking the Green Tiger
This film follows a resistance movement to the building of a dam on the Upper Yangtze River in southern China, highlighting Chairman Mao’s efforts to subjugate nature in the name of progress.
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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.