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Multimedia | interviews and talks
“From Slavery Plantations to Mass Tourism: A Project for a Synthesis of the Environmental History of the Greater Caribbean”
In this video, Reinaldo Funes Monzote (Hamburg Institute for Advanced Studies) presents his project “From Slavery Plantations to Mass Tourism: A Project for a Synthesis of the Environmental History of the Greater Caribbean.”
Multimedia | book, full-text
The Eclipse of Urbanism and the Greening of Public Space
In this book, Mark Luccarelli pushes past unproductive mind/body debates by rooting the rise of environmental awareness in the political and geographical history of the US.
Multimedia | book, full-text
Paradise Blues: Travels Through American Environmental History
Full text of Rachel Carson Center director Christof Mauch’s Paradise Blues: Travels Through American Environmental History.
Multimedia | journal article
“The Cistern-System of Early Modern Venice: Technology, Politics and Culture in a Hydraulic Society.”
In this article, David Gentilcore writes about the Venetian cistern-system and its a success as a technology for treating rainwater.
Multimedia | journal article
“‘Cool and Tasty Waters’: Managing Naples’s Water Supply, c. 1500–c. 1750”
In this article, David Gentilcore writes about the water supply of Naples, Italy, in the early modern period.
Multimedia | book excerpt
Environment and Infrastructure: Challenges, Knowledge and Innovation from the Early Modern Period to the Present
An edited volume environment and infrastructure in the late middle ages to our days.
Arcadia
Ecopolitical Space in a Riverine Landscape of South Asia
The article shows how ecological and geographical features influence the configuration of political space within a region.
Arcadia
Limits of the Landscape: A Waste Incinerator for Zurich’s Countryside
How does a waste incinerator take part in the production of a Swiss landscape?
Multimedia | book, full-text
The Land Is Our Community: Aldo Leopold’s Environmental Ethic for the New Millennium
A book on the relevance of the the land ethic of Aldo Leopold.