Searching for Stability: Energy, Entropy, and the Abandoning of the Panatomic Canal
Arcadia, Spring 2019, no. 9
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Mountain, Militarized: North Korea, Nuclear Tests, and Nature
Arcadia, Spring 2019, no. 8
Slow Hope: Rethinking Ecologies of Crisis and Fear
About this issue
This essay explores the possibility of “slow hope” for positive environmental change.
Content
Nuclear Humanities
Nuclear Humanities showcases interdisciplinary approaches to the problem of nuclear harm through a five-day workshop sponsored by Whitman College’s 2016 O’Donnell Endowed Chair in Global Studies.
"The Global Energy Challenge — An IEA View"
This joint presentation by Varro Laszlo and Stefan Pfenninger for the ESC Symposium 2017: Global Energy Challenge provides a framework to understand the economics behind energy consumption in the past, present, and future.
Alternative Futures: India Unshackled
Alternative Futures brings together 35 essays on India’s future, written by a diverse set of authors: activists, researchers, media persons, those who have influenced policies, and those working at the grassroots. Divided into four sections—Ecological Futures, Political Futures, Economic Futures, and Socio-Cultural Futures—the book covers a wide range of issues including environmental governance, biodiversity, democracy and power, law, agriculture, pastoralism, industry, languages, learning and education, knowledge, health and sexuality among others.
Climate Change and the Industrial Revolution: Informing Policy through History, Memory, and Literature
Goodbody examines the literary work Pandaemonium and its role in a research project to promote debate on climate change.
A Tale of Two Cities: Climate Policy in Münster and Dresden
Cindy Sturm looks at differences in climate-related policymaking Münster and Dresden.
Nature's Past episode 45: "The St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project"
In episode 45 of Nature’s Past, a podcast on Canadian environmental history, Daniel Macfarlane discusses his new book on the history of the St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project with Sean Kheraj.
Nature's Past episode 50: "Canadian Energy History"
In episode 50 of Nature’s Past, a podcast on Canadian environmental history, Sean Kheraj, Richard Unger, and John Thistle discuss Canada’s energy transition from organic to mineral sources and its social, political, and cultural consequences.