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The Promise and Peril of Environmental Justice
A critique of environmental justice movements in the United States.
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Schick aber Schädlich [Chic but dangerous]
This film investigates the hidden costs of smart and affordable clothes.
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Die Biosprit-Lüge [The Biofuel Myth]
A sobering contribution to the food versus fuel debate and an equally poignant exposé of the human and environmental impacts of European policy on biofuels.
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Cleaning Up the Great Lakes: From Cooperation to Confrontation
An account of how water pollution control policy emerged during the seminal decades of environmental activism, with reference to the largest group of freshwater lakes in the world: the Great Lakes.
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Das Gift kommt zurück [The toxins return]
The film looks at how toxic substances, banned in Europe, pass through ports such as Hamburg in containers shipped from Asia, and how these toxins can be traced in the clothing and children’s toys transported.
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Who Owns the Environment?
A collection of essays that, as a whole, considers strong private property rights as crucial for environmental protection.
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Smelter Smoke in North America: The Politics of Transborder Pollution
Chronicles how industry developed a continental perspective in a shared regional space, the mineralized West, and how successful efforts of governments and citizens to protect the environment evolved.
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American Forests: Nature, Culture, and Politics
An edited collection investigating the history of forestry in the United States from the nineteenth century onward.
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Tongass: Pulp Politics and the Fight for the Alaska Rain Forest
An account of post-World War II conflicts, prompted by the arrival of two major timber companies in Earth’s largest coastal temperate rainforest: Tongass National Forest in southeastern Alaska.
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Dispossessing the Wilderness: Indian Removal and the Making of the National Parks
An account of how national parks developed into one of the most important arenas of contention between native peoples and non-Indians in the twentieth century.