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Ice and Snow in the Cold War: Histories of Extreme Climatic Environments
Through histories of extremely cold environments, this volume makes a novel intervention in Cold War historiography.
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Changes in the Air: Hurricanes in New Orleans from 1718 to the Present
This volume offers a rich and thoroughly researched history of how hurricanes have shaped and reshaped New Orleans from the colonial era to the present day.
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Planning for the Planet: Environmental Expertise and the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, 1960–1980
This book reveals how IUCN experts struggled to make global schemes for nature conservation a central concern for UNESCO, UNEP and other intergovernmental organizations.
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Hazardous Chemicals: Agents of Risk and Change, 1800–2000
This collection investigates the emergence of specific toxic, pathogenic, carcinogenic, and ecologically harmful chemicals as well as the scientific, cultural and legislative responses they have prompted.
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Arava, Eretz Bereshit, Midbar, and Shmurat Teva—Modern Hebrew | Wilderness Babel
This chapter of the “Wilderness Babel” exhibition, written by MSc student Livnat Goldberg, highlights different words that are used in modern Hebrew to describe “wilderness.”
Exhibition chapter
Defining Wilderness—Japanese | Wilderness Babel
This chapter of the “Wilderness Babel” exhibition, written by MSc student Natasha Yamamoto, looks at how wilderness may be expressed and understood in Japanese.
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Erämaa—Finnish | Wilderness Babel
This chapter of the “Wilderness Babel” exhibition, written by historian Mikko Saikku, explores central concepts for understanding the traditional Finnish relationship with nature and use of natural resources.
Exhibition
Promotion and Transformation of Landscapes along the CB&Q Railroad
This virtual exhibition shows some of the many ways railroads reshaped landscapes of the American West between 1847 and 1965.
This version 2, published in 2020, includes minor updates to the original 2011 virtual exhibition (view PDF here) and applies the Environment & Society Portal's responsive layout.
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Introduction: “Quite a chapter in the history of the West” | CB&Q Railroad
The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad played an important role in the transformation of settlement, agriculture, commerce, and recreation in North America. This is the introductory chapter of the virtual exhibition “Promotion and Transformation of Landscapes along the CB&Q Railroad” by environmental historian Eric D. Olmanson.
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“The sun will be requested to rise and set by railroad time” | CB&Q Railroad
This is Chapter 1 of the virtual exhibition “Promotion and Transformation of Landscapes along the CB&Q Railroad” by environmental historian Eric D. Olmanson. It includes the story of how the Standard Time System was adopted in the US.