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The Fen River in Taiyuan, China: Ecology, Revitalization, and Urban Culture
This case study reflects China’s environmental governance as a constantly evolving structure within the “environment-politics-society” nexus.
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Versailles’ Drinking Water and the Last Service of the Marly Machine, 1859–1963
The Machine upgraded by Dufrayer was able to pump the impressive amount of 20,000 m3 per day but new concern threatened its existence: the Seine waters growing pollution.
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Die Wahrheit ist auf dem Feld: Eine Wissensgeschichte der deutschen Landwirtschaft
A history of German agricultural technologies and the environmental problems they have given rise to since the nineteenth century.
Perspectives Article
Why Is Human Niche Construction Transforming Planet Earth?
Ellis argues that the unparalleled capacity of human societies to construct ecological niches at growing social and spatial scales has allowed them to alter the Earth permanently and profoundly.
Perspectives Article
Masculinity, Work, and the Industrial Forest in the US Pacific Northwest
Erik Loomis discusses the production of working-class masculinity in the US Pacific Northwest, highlighting environmental history’s need to reinstate working people in its studies.
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“Generating Infrastructural Invisibility: Insulation, Interconnection, and Avian Excrement in the Southern California Power Grid”
Examining a case of electric power transmission in California in the early twentieth century, Etienne Benson reveals how industrial infrastructures are embedded in complex environments animated by unexpected agencies often invisible to their users.
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The Limits to Growth: A Report for the Club of Rome's Project on the Predicament of Mankind
Book profile for The Limits to Growth.
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“Moby Dick” in the Rhine: How a Beluga Whale Raised Awareness of Water Pollution in West Germany
In 1966, a stray beluga whale swimming up and down the polluted Lower Rhine caught the media’s attention in West Germany.
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"Decentralized Production and Affective Economies: Theorizing the Ecological Implications of Localism"
Greear examines the contemporary trend toward de-industrialized and decentralized production and its implications for ecological sustainability. He suggests we can understand the potential positive ecological implications of such trends by reconceptualizing “incomplete information” in markets, which is often understood as a key way in which markets fail to solve or forestall environmental problems.
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Mining and Communities in Northern Canada: History, Politics, and Memory
This collection examines historical and contemporary social, economic, and environmental impacts of mining on Aboriginal communities in northern Canada. Combining oral history research with intensive archival study, this work juxtaposes the perspectives of government and industry with the perspectives of local communities.