Can Public Policy Perpetuate the Memory of Disasters?
Colten and Grismore examine the Amite River flood in August 2016 against the backdrop of collective flood memory and public policy.
cities
Green City: Explorations and Visions of Urban Sustainability
About this issue
This volume explores the “green city” concept from a global and interdisciplinary perspective. Contributions examine the conflicts inherent in eco-modernization and investigate opportunities to respond meaningfully to urban environmental challenges.
Content
The Emerald City Was Not a Green City
Melosi analyzes the Emerald City in L. Frank Baum’s novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz to highlight how limited perspectives on urban greenness once were.
Map: The 1974 flooding of Brisbane
Painting: Rescue during the 1847 Vienna flood
This painting by Leander Russ depicts a rescue operation during a flood in Vienna in 1847.
Nature's Past episode 56: "Animal Metropolis"
In episode 56 of Nature’s Past, a podcast on Canadian environmental history, Sean Kheraj joins Joanna Dean and Christabelle Sethna to discuss their new book Animal Metropolis: Histories of Human-Animal Relations in Urban Canada and, more broadly, the history of animals and cities.
The Lost Lakes of Bangalore
Arcadia, Spring 2018, no. 13
The Urban Planet: How Cities Save Our Future
This comic The Urban Planet: How Cities Save Our Future condenses into an illustrated story the fundamental findings of Humanity on the Move: Unlocking the Transformative Power of Cities, a report published by the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU).
About the Exhibition
Ecopolis München
Ecopolis München: Environmental Histories of a City is an exhibition on Munich’s environmental histories and showcases the final projects of students in the Environmental Studies Certificate Program of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society.
About the author
Further Reading
Further Reading
What follows is a selected bibliography on Munich’s environmental history. The list is not comprehensive, but is intended merely as an introduction for readers interested in learning more about some of the research from which the exhibition Ecopolis draws. Most titles are in German.
Abfallwirtschaftsbetrieb München. 125 Jahre Münchner Müllabfuhr. Jubiläumsschrift 1891–2016. München: Abfallwirtschaftsbetrieb München, 2016.
Ecopolis München
Ecopolis München: Environmental Histories of a City is an exhibition on Munich’s environmental histories and showcases the final projects of students in the Environmental Studies Certificate Program of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society.
About the author