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Domestic Storage Problems and Transitions: Coal in Nineteenth-Century America
Sean Patrick Adams explores coal storage and expansion in nineteenth-century America.
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Unifying the Yangzi Watershed in Early Twentieth-Century China
This article examines early twentieth-century China’s top-down scheme of managing rivers based on watershed.
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How a Catastrophic Flood of the Gürbe River Triggered the Rethinking of Local Flood Protection
From channelizations to renaturations—the catastrophic flood of the Gürbe River in July 1990 prompted profound changes in approaches to flood protection.
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"Restoring Eden in the Amish Anthropocene"
Through an ethnographic account about the use of an electromagnetic water system in the Amish community, Nicole Welk-Joerger explores the conceptual meeting ground between sacred and secular worldviews in efforts that address the Anthropocene.
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Communicating the Climate: From Knowing Change to Changing Knowledge
This volume explores the question of whether science should be centered in climate-change communication.
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Promoting Health, Combating Climate Change: How the Promotores de Salud Network in the US-Mexico Borderlands is Building Climate Resilience
Schur Petri demonstrates how local health workers can effectively communicate climate risks on the ground.
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Imagining a New Eden in the Nuclear West
The blooming desert in a 1940s magazine ad showcases the idyllic landscapes and conspicuous absences in atomic bucolic imagery.
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How a Fishway from Norway Reached the Weser River in Germany (1905–1912)
Between 1905 and 1912, experts on fisheries and hydraulic engineering collaborated in order to erect a fishway at the Hemelinger dam.
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“‘We’ May Be in This Together, but We Are Not All Human and We Are Not One and the Same”
In this article, Rosi Braidotti explores the relation between posthumanism and the environmental humanities.
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“Gaia versus the Anthropocene: Untimely Thoughts on the Current Eco-Catastrophe.”
This article suggests an alternative understanding of global warming and gives a thermodynamic and historical account of ecological destruction.