transportation

The volume of air traffic increased drastically over the past 50 years as a result of globalization and mass tourism and has a significant impact on climate change.

Peter S. Wenz analyses the notion of efficiency and argues that transportation policies that environmentalists favour—substitution of intercity rail and urban mass transit for most automotive forms of transport—are both efficient and just.

This book presents one of the first comparative histories of rivers on the continents of Europe and North America in the modern age. The contributors examine the impact of rivers on humans and, conversely, the impact of humans on rivers.

An environmental history of waterways in the United States.