environmentalism

Historian Robert Gioielli, Carson fellow from September 2010 to June 2011, speaks about his research project, “Hard Asphalt and Heavy Metals: An Environmental History of the Urban Crisis.”

An essay review of books by Arun Agrawal, Peder Anker, David Arnold, Gregory A. Barton, Richard Drayton, and S. Ravi. Rajan.

It is widely assumed that modern environmentalist thinking was imported into post-communist states such as the Czech Republic post 1989. This paper shows these countries had environmental traditions of their own.

McQuaid advances the view that NASA consistently misread the importance of the most popular science-based political movement of the late twentieth century.

The counter-hegemonic struggle for ecological democracy is one of the fastest growing social movements in contemporary society, and requires the attention of environmental historians to situate it within the broader context of the history of environmentalism.

The article analyses the trajectory of a group of Brazilian intellectuals from 1786 to 1810, who inaugurated a systematic critique of the environmental damage caused by colonial economy in Brazil, especially forest destruction and soil erosion.

Malcolm Chase reviews the sequel to Anna Bramwell’s Ecology in the 20th Century: A History.