Ellen Swallow Richards Accepted at MIT
The chemist is one of the pioneers of environmental hygiene.
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Sounds in the Sky: Listening for the Aurora Borealis at Fort Chipewyan
Changing Deserts: Integrating People and Their Environment
This book draws on the diversity of papers on deserts and drylands presented at the first Oxford Interdisciplinary Deserts Conference in March 2010.
Indigenous Knowledge
This book investigates how indigenous peoples from various cultures interact with and conceptualize their environments, past and present.
Roundtable Review of The Invention of Ecocide by David Zierler
In this book David Zierler tries to explain the success of the campaign against herbicidal warfare that followed the start of Operation Ranch Hand in 1961.
Roundtable Review of Fixing the Sky by James R. Fleming
If climate change mitigation through political agreement has no hope of succeeding, does it make sense to tinker with the climate?
Roundtable Review of Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway
Why do we continue to talk about the debate over global warming as if it were a scientific controversy?
Industrialized Nature: Brute Force Technology and the Transformation of the Natural World
For nearly a century, we have relied increasingly on science and technology to harness natural forces, but at what environmental and social cost?
Simon Werrett on "Recycling and the History of Science and Technology"
Simon Werrett, Carson Fellow from May to September 2011, talks about his research on ‘Recycling and the History of Science and Technology.’
Istvan Praet on "Natural Catastrophes"
Istvan Praet, Carson Fellow from July to December 2011, talks about the perception of catastrophes among the Chachi, the Amerindian inhabitants of Esmeraldas, a lowland region on the Pacific coast.