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The High Cost of Cheap Gas
This film examines lessons learnt from fracking in the US state of Colorado as the practice quietly expands to protected areas around the world.
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Banking Nature
This film examines the pros and cons of the financialization of nature, an approach which some believe can make up for failed political solutions.
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No Dinosaurs in Heaven
This film examines the impact of creationism on US-American public education.
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Das Blaue Gold im Garten Eden [Blue Gold in the Garden of Eden]
The film examines the social and ecological consequences of the Turkey’s South-East-Anatolia-Project (GAP), designed to enable energy production and irrigation on a huge scale.
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Nuclear Savage: The Islands of Secret Project 4.1
This film reveals how the United States—after having dropped 67 nuclear bombs on the Marshall Islands during the Cold War—studied the effects of nuclear fallout on the native population.
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Cycling and Recycling. Histories of Sustainable Practices
In case studies ranging from the Early Modern secondhand trade to utopian visions of human-powered vehicles, the contributions gathered here explore the historical fortunes of bicycling and waste recycling—tracing their development over time and providing valuable context for the policy successes and failures of today.
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Creating Wilderness: A Transnational History of the Swiss National Park
The history of the Swiss National Park is told for the first time in Creating Wilderness. The deliberate reinterpretation of the American idea of the national park, as implemented in Yellowstone, was innovative and radical, but its consequences were not limited to Switzerland. The Swiss park became the prime example of a “scientific national park,” thereby influencing the course of national parks worldwide.
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In the Name of the Great Work: Stalin's Plan for the Transformation of Nature and its Impact in Eastern Europe
Beginning in 1948, the Soviet Union launched a series of wildly ambitious projects to implement Joseph Stalin’s vision of a total “transformation of nature.” By the time of Stalin’s death, however, these attempts at “transformation” had proven a spectacular failure. This richly detailed volume, In the Name of the Great Work follows the history of such projects in three communist states—Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia—and explores their varied, but largely disastrous, consequences.
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Disrupted Landscapes: State, Peasants, and the Politics of Land in Postsocialist Romania
Disrupted Landscapes focuses on the emblematic case of postsocialist Romania, in which the transition from collectivization to privatization profoundly reshaped the nation’s forests, farmlands, and rivers.
