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“Citizens of a Watershed”: The Colorado River Compact and the Exigencies of Drought
The premises of water allocation legislation came under harsh scrutiny in the early 2000s as severe drought plagued the American Southwest.
Multimedia | journal article
Holm, Poul, et al., "Humanities for the Environment—A Manifesto for Research and Action"
The authors offer a manifesto for the humanities to step up to the challenges of environmental change, and invite others to join the open global consortium Humanities for the Environment.
Multimedia | book profile
Cycling and Recycling. Histories of Sustainable Practices
In case studies ranging from the Early Modern secondhand trade to utopian visions of human-powered vehicles, the contributions gathered here explore the historical fortunes of bicycling and waste recycling—tracing their development over time and providing valuable context for the policy successes and failures of today.
Multimedia | film profile
A Dangerous Game
This documentary from filmmaker and investigative journalist Anthony Baxter examines the eco-impact of luxury golf resorts around the world.
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American Horses for the South African War, 1899–1902
American equines shipped to the South African War suffered conditions like those on slave ships in the transatlantic slave trade.
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Nature, Beauty, Tourism: The Concurrent Roots of Abruzzo National Park
In the early 1920s one of the first European national parks was established in a densely populated area to foster both nature protection and economic growth.
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Rothschild's Wilderness: How a Primeval Forest Survived the Timber Industry
History of the primeval forest Urwald Rothwald and how it survived through time.
Perspectives
Whose Anthropocene? Revisiting Dipesh Chakrabarty’s “Four Theses”
In “The Climate of History: Four Theses,” Dipesh Chakrabarty examined the idea of the Anthropocene—the dawn of a new geological period dominated by human activities—in the context of history and philosophy, raising fundamental questions about how we think historically in an era when human and geological timescales are colliding.This volume of RCC Perspectives offers critiques of these “Four Theses” by scholars of environmental history, political philosophy, religious studies, literary criticism, environmental planning, geography, law, biology, and geology.
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Wildfire Stories: Framing a Complicated Relationship
In 2014 and 2015 the Methow Valley in Washington State experienced the largest wildfires in the state’s history.