Joseph Szarka presents and evaluates environmental policy-making in France at a time when environmental problems are growing in complexity and gravity.
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During the 1970s and 1980s, Petra Kelly traveled the globe, visiting local sites of anti-nuclear protest. Intent on bringing the energy of disparate grassroots anti-nuclear protests into parliamentary politics, Kelly helped found the West German Greens in 1980.
Stephen Mosley examines three aspects of Victorian and Edwardian Manchester’s smoke situation: its magnitude and impact on the town, the rhetoric and culture of smoke, and the (unsuccessful) campaigns to control it.
Nature’s Management is a collection of early nineteenth century agricultural writings by Edmund Ruffin, topically arranged to highlight Virginia’s fence enclosure laws, municipal public health measures to combat malaria, wetlands drainage and reclamation, and observations of the geology, botany, and culture of Virginia and the Carolinas.
This collection emphasizes that common lands were a key component of early-modern agriculture in many parts of northwest Europe.
Anthony Carrigan, Carson Fellow from January to June 2012, talks about his research concerning social disasters such as wars and ongoing chronic poverty that can develop from colonization.
Donatella de Rita, Carson Fellow from April 2012 until June 2012, speaks about her research project on urban development and the associated hazard in volcanic areas, as well as on geoarcheology.
Based on his serialized “Ripples in Clio’s Pond” segments in the journal Capitalism Nature Socialism, J. Donald Hughes’s book condenses the environmental history of the world into roughly 250 pages without leaving gaping holes.
Just Ecological Integrity presents a collection of revised and expanded essays originating from the international conference “Connecting Environmental Ethics, Ecological Integrity, and Health in the New Millennium,” held in San Jose, Costa Rica in June 2000.
According to Richard Stroup, the protection of the environment can be safely left to the operation of capital markets and “shareholder power.”