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A collection of essays exploring the production and disposal of wastes in the American city since 1850.

For nearly a century, we have relied increasingly on science and technology to harness natural forces, but at what environmental and social cost?

This book links the environmental movement that emerged in the United States during the 1960s to earlier progressive movements and considers the importance of race, ethnicity, class, and gender issues for the history and evolution of environmentalism.

Paul Josephson discusses the project he worked on during his Carson Fellowship, from August to December 2011: an environmental history of the Soviet Arctic.

Bao Maohong, Carson Fellow from July to December 2011, talks about his work on landscape transformation in China.

Explores the conceptualization of environments as landscape, philosophically and historically.

David Moon talks about his visit to the Ukrainian steppes.

This paper provides a historical overview of the formation of the system of federal conservation units existent in Brazil as of 2006 and examines selected aspects of their current status.

Professional forest management in the Philippines is largely attributed to the ideas and endeavours of American foresters such as Gifford Pinchot, George Ahern and Henry Graves who were instrumental in establishing the Insular Bureau of Forestry in 1900 and in passing the forestry laws of 1904 and 1905.

Three species of the family Mustelidae (stoats, weasels and ferrets) were initially introduced into New Zealand (and granted statutory protection) in an attempt to control a burgeoning rabbit population…