Content Index

“Land Use and Environmental Ideologies in British Mandate Palestine, 1917–1948”

Lunchtime Colloquium at the Rachel Carson Center with Mona Bieling.

“An Environmental History of Munich”

A lecture by Christof Mauch.

Visualizing Energy

Visualizing Energy is an open-access, interdisciplinary science-communication project that aims to increase actionable knowledge about a sustainable and just energy transition.

Turning to Nature in Germany: Hiking, Nudism, and Conservation, 1900–1940

Book excerpt from Turning to Nature in Germany by John Alexander Williams.

The Toxic Ship: The Voyage of the Khian Sea and the Global Waste Trade

Book excerpt from The Toxic Ship by Simone Müller.

Different Ways of Thinking Globally: The Unlikely Return of the Noosphere in Russian Environmental Discourses

What role does Vernadsky’s concept of the noosphere plays in contemporary Russian environmental legislation and green economy discourses?

The Barcelona School of Ecological Economics and Political Ecology: A Companion in Honour of Joan Martinez-Alier

Full open access book on ecological economics.

Drimys winteri: Circulation of Environmental Ignorance in European Written Sources (1578–1776)

The article explores the circulation of environmental ignorance on Drimys winteri in European written sources in 1578–1776.

The Silent Spring Soundscape: Lessons in Listening to the Land (Story Map)

Interactive story map on Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring and the relevance of sound.

Exploring City Wetlands: Small Resilient Unruly (Story Map)

Interactive story map by Paolo Gruppuso on urban ecologies in Latina, Italy.

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