A Killer Air: Delineating Disaster in Mexico City
A noxious air forces Mexico City to confront its unwavering urbanizing and industrializing mission in the late twentieth century.
A noxious air forces Mexico City to confront its unwavering urbanizing and industrializing mission in the late twentieth century.
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.
This collection investigates the emergence of specific toxic, pathogenic, carcinogenic, and ecologically harmful chemicals as well as the scientific, cultural and legislative responses they have prompted.
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.
In this commentary, Bejoy Thomas, Soumyajit Bhar, and Shoibal Chakravarty caution against optimistic narratives of environmental revival.
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Astrid Eckert is interviewed on her book, West Germany and the Iron Curtain: Environment, Economy, and Culture in the Borderlands.
Johan Rockström works to understand Earth’s resilience, and shows how nine out of the 15 big biophysical systems that regulate the climate are at risk of reaching tipping points. 10 years after his first TED Talk, he presents a plan for putting the planet back on the path of sustainability over the next 10 years.
The world is full of environmental injustices and inequalities; yet few European historians have tackled these subjects head on, nor have they explored their relationships with social inequalities.
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Nadia Y. Kim is interviewed on her recent book, Refusing Death: Immigrant Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice in LA.
Book profile for The Limits to Growth.