industrialization

A prize-winning short film about a man who, living a lonely life under dark clouds of industrial smog somewhere in a futuristic city, receives a mysterious package enabling him to change his environment.

For nearly a century, we have relied increasingly on science and technology to harness natural forces, but at what environmental and social cost?

John McNeill, Carson Fellow from June to August 2011, talks about his project to write a global environmental history of the industrial revolution.

Paul Josephson discusses the project he worked on during his Carson Fellowship, from August to December 2011: an environmental history of the Soviet Arctic.

Ingo Heidbrink, Carson Fellow from June 2011 to December 2011, talks about his environmental history of Greenland.

An environmental history of the Industrial Revolution, as inscribed on the Liri valley in Italy’s Central Apennines.

The Liri valley story, located at the periphery of the industrial revolution, provides an excellent opportunity for investigating the environmental impact of privatisation in water resources, and its social costs.

Two substantive criticisms of Warren Dean’s ‘wood hypothesis’ are offered here: the wood hypothesis is accurate in general but underestimated the industrial consumption of fossil fuels, without conclusively rejecting the competing ‘hydroelectricity’ hypothesis; the method used for estimating potential energy supply from forest area was erroneous.

Industrialising cities of the 19th century are seen as lax in environmental matters. However, Manchester took a strong stand against air pollution.