Nature's Past episode 55: "Asbestos Mining and Environmental Health"
In episode 55 of Nature’s Past, a podcast on Canadian environmental history, SEan Kheraj speaks to Jessica van Horssen about her new book, A Town Called Asbestos.
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"Living in a Cage: The Intimate Geographies of Conservation in South Africa and Tanzania"
John Reid-Hresko’s article draws on 18 months of comparative ethnographic research with men and women who are employed and reside in protected areas in northern Tanzania and South Africa’s Kruger National Park.
HfE: Humanities for the Environment Observatories
The aim of the Humanities for the Environment Observatories (HfE) is to identify, explore, and demonstrate the contributions that humanistic and artistic disciplines make to solving global social and environmental challenges.
Harvest of the Suburbs, An Environmental History of Growing Food in Australian Cities
Drawing on sources ranging from gardening books and magazines to statistics and oral history, Andrea Gaynor’s book challenges some of the widespread myths about food production in Australian cities and traces the reasons for its enduring popularity.
The Overrated Effect of Cholera and Typhoid Fever on Sanitary Reform: The Case of Linz
Arcadia, Spring 2017, no. 6
Mumps in the Post-Secondary Environment: Targeted Advertising in the 2007–2008 Alberta Mumps Vaccination Campaign
Treating the “Undesirable”: Venereal Patients in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914–1918
Arcadia, Spring 2017, no. 2
Jamieson, Dale, "Ecosystem Health: Some Preventive Medicine"
Dale Jamieson develops several objections to the concept of ‘ecosystem health’ in environmental policy, outlining problems in governance institutions, value structures, and knowledge systems.
Norton, Bryan, "Objectivity, Intrinsicality, and Sustainability: Comment on Nelson's 'Health and Disease as "Thick" Concepts in Ecosystemic Contexts'"
Bryan Norton discusses limitations to James Nelson’s concept of ecosystem health as having both descriptive and normative content.
Versailles’ Drinking Water and the Last Service of the Marly Machine, 1859–1963
Arcadia, Autumn 2016, no. 14