Living Downstream
The film documents Sandra Steingraber’s travels across North America, during which the ecologist and writer works toward breaking the silence over cancer and its environmental links.
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The Struggle with the River: Vienna and the Danube from 1500 to the Present
"The Effect of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict on the Water Resources of the Jordan River Basin"
The article analyzes the interaction between security and environment in the Mediterranean, focusing on the paradigmatic example of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict over water resources in the Jordan River basin.
The Culture of Landscape Transformation: From an Off-Limits, Open Sewer to the New Emscher Valley
Bold State Effort Fails to Control Floods in Fourteenth-century Roussillon
Dirty Paradise
This is the story of the Wayana people in French Amazonia, whose future is threatened following the arrival of gold miners.
Roundtable Review of Quagmire by David Biggs
In this book, David Biggs explores the actual uses of land and water in Vietnam through its troubled history.
City Sanitation Regulations in the Coventry Mayor’s Proclamation of 1421
The Amazon River Forest: A Natural History of Plants, Animals, and People
An investigation, based on both fieldwork and historical sources, of changing land use practices in the Amazonian floodplain forest.