Most contributors to Agrarmodernisierung und Ökologische Folgen deal with the ecological consequences of farming and agriculture in twentieth-century Germany.
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Thorough compilation, exhaustive research, and precise chronology are the hallmarks of this work on the Hanford Site Historic District, a plutonium production facility that operated from 1943 to 1990.
Brent Spar becomes one of Greenpeace’s most succesful campaigns to stop the pollution of the seas.
First contact of Europeans with potatos in the Magdalena Valley in the Colombian Andes
A “deep ecology” of the Middle Ages.
Hal Rothman’s Neon Metropolis is a colorful and absorbing account of Las Vegas’s rise from the desert landscape of the American West to the cutting edge of metropolitan growth and development.
In linking culture with nature, science with history, Man and Nature was the most influential text of its time next to Darwin’s On the Origin of Species.
In Frigid Embrace, Stephen Haycox explores how the drive to extract natural resources has shaped Alaskans’ understanding of nature and their relationships with the region’s Native people.
In 1993, environmental objections to NAFTA resulted in the establishment of the North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC), the first international organization created to address issues related to trade and the environment. Surprisingly, however, the CEC has received little scholarly attention, to date. This book is intended to fill that gap by providing a comprehensive analysis of how the organization has fulfilled, or failed to fulfill, its mandates.
In Hanford: A Conversation About Nuclear Waste and Cleanup, Roy Gephart takes us on a journey through a world of facts, values, conflicts, and choices facing the most complex environmental cleanup project in the United States, the US Department of Energy’s Hanford Site.