Green Visions: A Dialogue
Dorothee Brantz and Avi Sharma discuss the history of green urban visions, looking at historical precedents of the modern green city.
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Nature's Past episode 53: "The Social and Environmental History of Hamilton Harbour"
In episode 53 of Nature’s Past, a podcast on Canadian environmental history, Sean Kheraj invites Nancy Bouchier and Ken Cruikshank to discuss their new book, The People and the Bay, and ways of thinking about social and environmental history.
“Generating Infrastructural Invisibility: Insulation, Interconnection, and Avian Excrement in the Southern California Power Grid”
Examining a case of electric power transmission in California in the early twentieth century, Etienne Benson reveals how industrial infrastructures are embedded in complex environments animated by unexpected agencies often invisible to their users.
"Decentralized Production and Affective Economies: Theorizing the Ecological Implications of Localism"
Greear examines the contemporary trend toward de-industrialized and decentralized production and its implications for ecological sustainability. He suggests we can understand the potential positive ecological implications of such trends by reconceptualizing “incomplete information” in markets, which is often understood as a key way in which markets fail to solve or forestall environmental problems.
Petropolitics: Petroleum Development, Markets and Regulations, Alberta as an Illustrative History
This book provides an economic history of the petroleum industry in Alberta, Canada, as well as a detailed analysis of the operation of the markets for Alberta oil and natural gas, and the main governmental regulations (apart from environmental regulations) faced by the industry.
Mining and Communities in Northern Canada: History, Politics, and Memory
This collection examines historical and contemporary social, economic, and environmental impacts of mining on Aboriginal communities in northern Canada. Combining oral history research with intensive archival study, this work juxtaposes the perspectives of government and industry with the perspectives of local communities.
Masculinity, Work, and the Industrial Forest in the US Pacific Northwest
Erik Loomis discusses the production of working-class masculinity in the US Pacific Northwest, highlighting environmental history’s need to reinstate working people in its studies.
“Moby Dick” in the Rhine: How a Beluga Whale Raised Awareness of Water Pollution in West Germany
Arcadia, Spring 2018, no. 6
The Limits to Growth: A Report for the Club of Rome's Project on the Predicament of Mankind
Book profile for The Limits to Growth.
Why Is Human Niche Construction Transforming Planet Earth?
Ellis argues that the unparalleled capacity of human societies to construct ecological niches at growing social and spatial scales has allowed them to alter the Earth permanently and profoundly.