Science and International Policy: Regimes and Nonregimes in Global Governance
Introduces nonregimes into the study of global governance, and compares successes with failures in the formation of environmental treaties.
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Anya Zilberstein on "Count Rumford and the Landscape of Munich's English Garden"
Anya Zilberstein, Carson Fellow from February 2012 until July 2012, talks about her project on prison gardens, especially the work of Count Rumford (Benjamin Thompson), who designed Munich’s English Garden in the late eighteenth century.
The Swiss National Park: A Model of Nature Conservation for Scientific Research
Roundtable Review of Wired Wilderness by Etienne Benson
Sara Dant, Michael Lewis, and Robert M. Wilson discuss Etienne Benson’s Wired Wilderness: Technologies of Tracking and the Making of Modern Wildlife.
Toxic Drift: Pesticides and Health in the Post-World War II South
On the use, abuse, and regulation of pesticides from World War II until 1970.
Thinking about the Environment: Our Debt to the Classical and Medieval Past
The contributions to this volume explore and uncover contemporary scholarship’s debt to the classical and medieval past.
Science and Politics in the International Environment
This book seeks to explain what science and politics are in the context of environmental policymaking and how the interplay of science and politics influences international environmental policy.
Historische Humanökologie: Interdisziplinäre Zugänge zu Menschen und Ihrer Umwelt
Prominent Austrian and German scholars combine science and humanities in interdisciplinary approaches to humans and their environment.
Visions of the Land: Science, Literature, and the American Environment from the Era of Exploration to the Age of Ecology
The work of John Charles Fremont, Richard Byrd, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, John Wesley Powell, Susan Cooper, Rachel Carson, and Loren Eiseley represents a widely divergent body of writing. Michael A. Bryson provides a thoughtful examination of these authors, their work, and the ways in which science and nature unite them.
Hanford: A Conversation about Nuclear Waste and Cleanup
In Hanford: A Conversation About Nuclear Waste and Cleanup, Roy Gephart takes us on a journey through a world of facts, values, conflicts, and choices facing the most complex environmental cleanup project in the United States, the US Department of Energy’s Hanford Site.