An in-depth examination of how uranium, the natural resource on which the nuclear power industry depends, is extracted.
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Stefania Barca presents an environmental history of the Industrial Revolution, through the lens of the Liri River Valley.
Economic historian Paolo Malanima reviews a work of ambitious scale by geographer Ian Gordon Simmons.
Eric Rutkow shows that trees were essential to the early years of the republic and indivisible from the country’s rise as both an empire and a civilization.
The first major oil price crisis shocks Western industrial nations and initiates a long history of price fluctuations of this finite resource.
George Perkins Marsh (1801-1882) was the first to reveal the menace of environmental misuse, to explain its causes, and to prescribe reforms. David Lowenthal here offers fresh insights, from new sources, into Marsh’s career and shows his relevance today.
Geography and History is the first book for more than a century to examine comprehensively the interdependence of the two disciplines.
US history from an environmental perspective.
This book seeks to explain what science and politics are in the context of environmental policymaking and how the interplay of science and politics influences international environmental policy.
Two Paths toward Sustainable Forests is the first book to examine the social and economic aspects of sustainable forestry and the resulting impacts on resource policy in Canada and the United States.