Esta colección reúne a algunos de los académicos más destacados en el estudio de las historias ambientales de América Latina y el Caribe para proponer nuevas perspectivas sobre el desarrollo poscolonial del continente. Estos ensayos narran historias variadas de interacciones complejas entre grupos sociales, estados y sus ambientes, y proveen nuevos ángulos para enriquecer las interpretaciones más conocidas.
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The documentary follows a tribe in one of the poorest regions in India and its fight to save a sacred mountain from multinational mining moguls.
This collection brings together leading scholars on the environments of Latin America and the Caribbean to give us new and alternative narratives of the postcolonial history of the continent.
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Garth Lenz has played a major part in the fight against Alberta Tar Sands Mining through his photojournalism.
This volume of RCC Perspectives offers an interdisciplinary look at mining and its environmental impacts in central Europe. The metals and minerals covered in the articles include copper and silver in Tirol, mercury in Slovenia, lead and zinc in Westphalia, lime in the Rhineland, and uranium in East and West Germany.
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An interdisciplinary collection of essays that investigates the various approaches and research fields of environmental history.
Eagle Glassheim, Carson Fellow from February until April 2012, talks about his research project on the ethnic, social, and environmental transformation of Czechoslovakia’s Border Lands after 1945.
Katherine G. Aiken traces Bunker Hill’s evolution from the mine’s discovery in 1885 to the company’s closure in 1981.
Warm Sands gives an institutional analysis of how the debates over legal and political authority, scientific expertise, and public health and safety both delayed and shaped the formation of mill tailings policy in the United States.
Chasing the Glitter tells the story of the men, mills, and machines that teased precious metals from the reluctant ores of the Black Hills of South Dakota.
