Karabash: The City of Pollution
Arcadia, 2013, no. 14
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air pollution
Energy Metropolis: An Environmental History of Houston and the Gulf Coast
A comprehensive history of the development of Houston, examining the factors that have facilitated large-scale energy production and unprecedented growth—and the environmental cost of that development.
Devastation and Renewal: An Environmental History of Pittsburgh and its Region
A collection of essays examining the tortured environmental history of Pittsburgh, a region blessed with an abundance of natural resources as well as a history of intensive industrial development.
Rachel Carson's Silent Spring: Encounters and Legacies
About this issue
This issue of RCC Perspectives takes a sweeping look at encounters with and legacies of the book, examining the global impact of Silent Spring over its half century of existence and considering the ways in which Rachel Carson’s ecological worldview equips us to understand and confront current and future challenges to our planet.
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Eco-Images: Historical Views and Political Strategies
About this issue
Taking a closer look at the history of eco-images and their influence in current debates, this issue of RCC Perspectives analyzes the role of visual material in shaping environmental discourses.
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Die Frühgeschichte der globalen Umweltkrise und die Formierung der deutschen Umweltpolitik (1950–1973) [The early history of the global environmental crisis and the formation of German environmental politics]
This volume traces the perception of the global environmental crisis on the basis of primary sources.
Umwelt-Geschichte: Arbeitsfelder, Forschungsansätze, Perspektiven [Environmental History: Fields, Approaches, Perspectives]
An interdisciplinary collection of essays that investigates the various approaches and research fields of environmental history.
The Age of Smoke: Environmental Policy in Germany and the United States, 1880–1970
A comparative history of environmental policy development in Germany and the United States from 1880 to 1970, and the rise of civic activism to combat air pollution.
The Green and the Brown: A History of Conservation in Nazi Germany
Tthe first comprehensive discussion of conservation in Nazi Germany.
Warm Sands: Uranium Mill Tailings Policy in the Atomic West
Warm Sands gives an institutional analysis of how the debates over legal and political authority, scientific expertise, and public health and safety both delayed and shaped the formation of mill tailings policy in the United States.