Taking a closer look at the history of eco-images and their influence in current debates, this issue of RCC Perspectives analyzes the role of visual material in shaping environmental discourses.
Content
A biography of the Chicago River.
This volume traces the perception of the global environmental crisis on the basis of primary sources.
An interdisciplinary collection of essays that investigates the various approaches and research fields of environmental history.
Summers shows that modern environmentalism is among the most important legacies of a consumer society.
Presents state-of-the-art research on the impact of ongoing and anticipated economic policy and institutional reforms on agricultural development and sustainable rural resource in two East-Asian transition (and developing) economies—China and Vietnam.
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.
Cultural eutrophication is a process, whereby an excessive increase in nutrients in inland waters occurs as a result of human activities. William McGucken’s book examines the causes and effects of this process with reference to Lake Erie.
