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What Does It Mean to Study Environments in Ukraine Now?
An essay on Russian imperialism and the entanglement of the geologic and the military.
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The Age of the Soybean: An Environmental History of Soy during the Great Acceleration
An edited volume on the soybean, one of the world’s most important commodities.
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Dispatches from the South China Sea Navigating to Common Ground
A book by James Borton on overfishing, illegal and unregulated fishing, coral reef destruction and reclamations, and, eventually, on ways of preserving our oceans.
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Interview with Ronald L. Trosper, author of Indigenous Economics: Sustaining Peoples and Their Lands
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Ronald L. Trosper is interviewed on his recent book, Indigenous Economics: Sustaining Peoples and Their Lands .
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The Return of Malthus: Environmentalism and Post-war Population–Resource Crises
A monograph on the postwar fear of scarcity and the influence of “neo-Malthusians.”
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The Institute of Man and Resources: An Environmental Fable
Book excerpt from former Rachel Carson Center fellow Alan MacEachern’s The Institute of Man and Resources: An Environmental Fable. Learn about how Prince Edward Island in Canada tackled the oil crisis of the 1970s by investing in renewable resources.
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“Chicago’s Temple of Steel: South Works since 1882”
In this Springs article, historian J. R. McNeill considers Chicago’s steel industry both past and present, and the history of the land.
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“Fishing for Sharks”
In this Springs article, Miles Powell discusses the history of shark fishing and the impact it had on shark populations as well as how these practices have evolved to this day.
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“Ecological Civilization”
In this Springs article, environmental historian Donald Worster delves into the material events behind cultural imaginaries in China, while asking for an ecological civilization. “Can humans learn, by subordinating their appetites to their brains, how to live on this earth intelligently and ethically?”
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“Cities by the Sea: A Tale of Qingdao and Los Angeles”
In this Springs article, environmental historian Shen Hou considers the shore lives of both Qingdao and Los Angeles.