Multimedia | journal article
"Why Worry About Climate Change? A Research Agenda"
In this paper, Richard S. J. Tol discusses gaps in climate change research and speculates on possible sign and size of the impacts of climate change.
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Multimedia | journal article
"Wrongful Harm to Future Generations: The Case of Climate Change"
In this article Marc D. Davidson argues that governments are justified in addressing the potential for human induced climate damages on the basis of future generations’ rights to bodily integrity and personal property.
Multimedia | film profile
The Disappearing of Tuvalu—Trouble In Paradise
This film focuses on the threat of global warming and rising sea levels in the South Pacific Island State of Tuvalu.
Multimedia | journal
Wild Earth 7, no. 3
Wild Earth 7, no. 3 features contributions by Bill McKibben on “Job and Wilderness;” Donald Worster on “The Wilderness of History;” Richard Harris on the rivers of Catalonia, Spain; and Andrew Kroll and Dwight Barry on the integration of conservation and community in Colorado.
Perspectives Article
The Domestication of Ice and Cold: The Ice Palace in Saint Petersburg 1740
The article describes how, ultimately, it was precisely the transitory nature of ice that undermined a successful and lasting presentation of power in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Perspectives Article
The Perils of Water: Floods, Droughts, and Pollution as Natural Hazards and Cultural Challenges
The paper addresses various ways that water is constructed as “dangerous,” whether because there is too much (floods), too little (droughts), or because it is polluted. Mauch emphasizes that although water catastrophes have a natural origin, their effects are primarily social.
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“Climate Blues: or How Awareness of the Human End Might Re-Instil Ethical Purpose to the Writing of History”
What does the possibility of an early end to human existence as part of a more general biotic extinction mean for the latter day writing of history?
Exhibition chapter
The Northwest Passage as a Voyage to Myth and Adventure | The Northwest Passage
Is the Arctic the last frontier? With text, audio, and video, historian Elena Baldassarri describes the historical struggle to find a passage through the perilous environments of the Far North. This is a chapter of the virtual exhibition “The Northwest Passage: Myth, Environment, and Resources.”
Exhibition chapter
Urbanization | Welcome to the Anthropocene
This is a chapter of the virtual exhibition “Welcome to the Anthropocene: The Earth in Our Hands”—written and curated by historian Nina Möllers.