Energy-from-waste plants in places like Britain were designed help reduce waste and carbon emissions, but they have had unintended side-effects.
On 15 February 1996, the oil tanker Sea Empress ran aground. Approximately 72,000 tons of crude oil spilled into the Milford Haven waters in Southern Wales, contaminating 200 kilometers of coastline. Swift implementation of environmental regulations, such as temporarily prohibiting mussel harvesting, successfully protected the coastal populations.
In this paper, Birgitte Nerlich and Nick Wright analyze the interaction between policy and ritual during the foot and mouth crisis in the UK.
Covering a wide geographical range of European countries, the articles in this edited collection investigate urban disasters such as floods, fires, earthquakes, and epidemic diseases.
Ecocritic Anne Milne, Carson Fellow from January 2010 to July 2011, talks about her research project concerning British eighteenth-century laboring-class poets.
This paper explores how an expert body, The Investigation of Atmospheric Pollution, was established in the face of different interests and agendas, the importance (and difficulties) of technical standard-setting with reference to environmental pollution, and, finally, the uses of environmental monitoring.
Rhododendron ponticum is the most expensive alien plant conservation problem in Britain and Ireland.
With particular reference to Gatty’s British Sea-Weeds and Eliot’s ‘Recollections of Ilfracombe’, this article takes an ecocritical approach to popular writings about seaweed, thus illustrating the broader perception of the natural world in mid-Victorian literature.
