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.
This book is the first comprehensive account of the causes, context, and consequences of the the worst accident in the history of commercial nuclear power in the United States, which occurred at Three Mile Island.
On the use, abuse, and regulation of pesticides from World War II until 1970.
Leading health scholars reveal the impact of globalization on human health, as it is mediated through environmental change.
Eagle Glassheim, Carson Fellow from February until April 2012, talks about his research project on the ethnic, social, and environmental transformation of Czechoslovakia’s Border Lands after 1945.
An original history of “ecological” ideas of the body as it unfolded in California’s Central Valley.
Bryan Norton differs between two types of sustainability definitions, ‘social scientific’ and ‘ecological’ ones, in order to define our moral obligation to act sustainably.
David Rapport explores what is and what is not implied by the ecosystem health metaphor.
James Nelson considers what kind of normative work might be done by speaking of ecosystems utilizing a “medical” vocabulary—drawing, that is, on such notions as “health,” disease,” and “illness.”
