Prominent Austrian and German scholars combine science and humanities in interdisciplinary approaches to humans and their environment.
Books & Profiles
Historische Humanökologie: Interdisziplinäre Zugänge zu Menschen und Ihrer Umwelt
Visions of the Land: Science, Literature, and the American Environment from the Era of Exploration to the Age of Ecology
The work of John Charles Fremont, Richard Byrd, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, John Wesley Powell, Susan Cooper, Rachel Carson, and Loren Eiseley represents a widely divergent body of writing. Michael A. Bryson provides a thoughtful examination of these authors, their work, and the ways in which science and nature unite them.
Wolf Mountains: A History of Wolves Along the Great Divide
Situating the wolf in the history of Canadian national parks, this controversial study examines the tumultuous relationship between humans and wolves in four Rocky Mountain parks.
Larding the Lean Earth: Soil and Society in Nineteenth-Century America
Stoll traces the origins of nineteenth-century conservation, which grew out of a rich and heated discussion, in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, about soil fertility, plant nutrition, and livestock management. More fundamental than any other resource, soil “became the focal point for a conception of nature as strictly limited.” The problem gave rise to a major disagreement about the wisdom of territorial expansion.
Hanford: A Conversation about Nuclear Waste and Cleanup
In Hanford: A Conversation About Nuclear Waste and Cleanup, Roy Gephart takes us on a journey through a world of facts, values, conflicts, and choices facing the most complex environmental cleanup project in the United States, the US Department of Energy’s Hanford Site.
Hanford Site Historic District: History of the Plutonium Production Facilities, 1943–1990
Thorough compilation, exhaustive research, and precise chronology are the hallmarks of this work on the Hanford Site Historic District, a plutonium production facility that operated from 1943 to 1990.
Down to Earth: Nature's Role in American History
US history from an environmental perspective.
Greening NAFTA: The North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation
In 1993, environmental objections to NAFTA resulted in the establishment of the North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC), the first international organization created to address issues related to trade and the environment. Surprisingly, however, the CEC has received little scholarly attention, to date. This book is intended to fill that gap by providing a comprehensive analysis of how the organization has fulfilled, or failed to fulfill, its mandates.
The Politics of Western Water: The Congressional Career of Wayne Aspinall
This political biography of Wayne Aspinall is an insightful account of the political, financial, and personal variables that affect the course by which water resource legislation is conceived, supported, and implemented—a book that is essential to understanding the history and future of water in the West.
Culture, Environment, and Conservation in the Appalachian South
Focusing on the mountainous area from northern Alabama to West Virginia, this important volume explores the historic and contemporary interrelations between culture and environment in a region that has been plagued by land misuse and damaging stereotypes of its people.