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Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature
A biography of American scientist and popular ecology writer, Rachel Carson.
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I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination
Examines the cultural history of English explorations of Earth’s polar regions.
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Transformations of Middle Eastern Natural Environments: Legacies and Lessons
A collection on the environmental history of the Middle East that covers five broad themes: agriculture and pastoralism; water; nature and culture; marine environments, and environmental monitoring.
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Wälder der Hoffnung [Forests of Hope]
Intended to address the alarming rate of deforestation worldwide, this series documents the efforts of indigenous peoples across the globe to find alternatives to exploitative and destructive forest practices.
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Review of Situating Environmental History, edited by Ranjan Chakrabarti
Debojyoti Das’s review of an environmental history reader containing essays by Karl Jacoby, Alok Kumar Ghosh, Arun Bandopadhyay, Archana Prasad, Vinita Damodaran, Ritajyoti Bandhopadhyay, Kaushik Roy, Arabinda Samanta, Amal Das, Sahara Ahmed, Jagdish N. Sinha, Sumit Guha, Rita Pemberton, Lawrence G. Gundersen, and Tridib Chakraborty.
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"Peasant Protest as Environmental Protest: Some Cases from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century"
A nuanced treatment of the relation between peasant protests and environment with reference to a broad range of examples from Mediterranean Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Africa.
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Living Downstream
The film documents Sandra Steingraber’s travels across North America, during which the ecologist and writer works toward breaking the silence over cancer and its environmental links.
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To Love the Wind and the Rain: African Americans and Environmental History
An examination of the relationship between African Americans and the environment in US history.
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"Women, Shelter and the Environment"
Filomina Chioma Steady links shelter, women, and the environment in order to understand this important dimension of the crisis in human settlements, particularly in the provision of human shelters.
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"Gender, Values and Power in Local Environmental Conflicts: The Case of Grassroots Organisations in North Catalonia"
In this article, Mercè Agüera-Cabo presents the case of grassroots organizations in North Catalonia in the context of gender, values, and power in local environmental conflicts.