Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature
A biography of American scientist and popular ecology writer, Rachel Carson.
A biography of American scientist and popular ecology writer, Rachel Carson.
The chemist is one of the pioneers of environmental hygiene.
This book draws on the diversity of papers on deserts and drylands presented at the first Oxford Interdisciplinary Deserts Conference in March 2010.
This book investigates how indigenous peoples from various cultures interact with and conceptualize their environments, past and present.
In this book David Zierler tries to explain the success of the campaign against herbicidal warfare that followed the start of Operation Ranch Hand in 1961.
If climate change mitigation through political agreement has no hope of succeeding, does it make sense to tinker with the climate?
Why do we continue to talk about the debate over global warming as if it were a scientific controversy?
For nearly a century, we have relied increasingly on science and technology to harness natural forces, but at what environmental and social cost?
Simon Werrett, Carson Fellow from May to September 2011, talks about his research on ‘Recycling and the History of Science and Technology.’