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Politics, Pollution and Pandas: An Environmental Memoir
A memoir of the author’s life and his strong interests in wildlife, conservation, and major environmental organizations.
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Effluent America: Cities, Industry, Energy, and the Environment
Garbage, wastewater, and hazardous waste: these are the lenses through which Melosi views nineteenth- and twentieth-century America. In broad overviews and specific case studies, Melosi treats the relationship between industrial expansion and urban growth from an ecological perspective.
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A Venetian Island: Environment, History and Change in Burano
Based on ethnographic and archival data, this in-depth study of the Venetian island of Burano shows how its inhabitants develop their sense of a distinct identity.
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Eco-nomics: What Everyone Should Know About Economics and the Environment
According to Richard Stroup, the protection of the environment can be safely left to the operation of capital markets and “shareholder power.”
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Inescapable Ecologies: A History of Environment, Disease, and Knowledge
An original history of “ecological” ideas of the body as it unfolded in California’s Central Valley.
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State of the World 2006: Special Focus: China and India
State of the World 2006 provides a special focus on China and India and their impact on the world as major consumers of resources and polluters of local and global ecosystems.
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International Organizations and Environmental Protection: Conservation and Globalization in the Twentieth Century
International Organizations and Environmental Protection comprehensively explores the environmental activities of professional communities, NGOs, regional bodies, the United Nations, and other international organizations during the twentieth century. It follows their efforts to shape debates about environmental degradation, develop binding intergovernmental commitments, and—following the seminal 1972 Conference on the Human Environment—implement and enforce actual international policies.
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Anthropocene Days
A book by John Dargavel on how humans experience the Anthropocene in everyday life.
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Meditations on Creation in an Era of Extinction
An excerpt from Meditations on Creation in an Era of Extinction by former Carson Fellow Kate Rigby.
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Green Development of Greenwashing? Environmental Humanities of Finland
An edited volume examining and challenging the reputed “greenness” of Finland.