industry

This film provides insight into the secretive way of life behind the walls of German nuclear plants.

Released almost 30 years later, this documentary examines events surrounding the major industrial accident at the trichlorphen plant ICMESA, near Seveso (“Seveso chemical disaster”).

A political thriller about GMOs and freedom of speech.

Cultural eutrophication is a process, whereby an excessive increase in nutrients in inland waters occurs as a result of human activities. William McGucken’s book examines the causes and effects of this process with reference to Lake Erie.

An analysis of environmental policy in China with a focus on the regulation of water pollution.

Chronicles how industry developed a continental perspective in a shared regional space, the mineralized West, and how successful efforts of governments and citizens to protect the environment evolved.

This film investigates the hidden costs of smart and affordable clothes.

This film chronicles the arrival of around four hundred Chinese workers in Dortmund’s postindustrial landscape in 2003. Their task: to work alongside the remaining 30-strong German workforce, dismantling what was formerly Europe’s most modern coking plant.

The world is full of environmental injustices and inequalities; yet few European historians have tackled these subjects head on, nor have they explored their relationships with social inequalities.