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.
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
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Natur und Industrie im Sozialismus: Eine Umweltgeschichte der DDR
Natur und Industrie im Sozialismus challenges common conceptions that portray the environmental history of East Germany as one of decline, highlighting the existence of advocates of environmental measures within the socialist party.
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Devastation and Renewal: An Environmental History of Pittsburgh and its Region
A collection of essays examining the tortured environmental history of Pittsburgh, a region blessed with an abundance of natural resources as well as a history of intensive industrial development.
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.
Arcadia
Brewing, Industrialization, and London Water Supplies
Making more beer for eighteenth-century London’s growing population increased the need for clean water. Efforts to guarantee supplies to the brewers had an effect on both urban and rural landscapes.
Exhibition chapter
The Northwest Passage as a Matter of National Security | The Northwest Passage
Once an environment in which the notion of nations was unheard of, the Arctic region is now a disputed space among superpowers. This is a chapter of the virtual exhibition “The Northwest Passage: Myth, Environment, and Resources”—written and curated by historian Elena Baldassarri.
Arcadia
Plant Politics in Karachi
This article investigates how plants are supported by systems of ethno-political, military, and neoliberal power in urban Pakistan.