"The purpose of this textbook on global ecosystem change and human health is twofold:(1) to raise awareness of changes in human health related to global ecosystem change and (2) to …
How the story of Noah's Flood was central to the development of a global environmental consciousness in early modern Europe.Winner, Morris D. Forkosch Prize, Journal of the History …
During the twentieth century, lead poisoning killed thousands of workers and children in the United States. Thousands who survived lead poisoning were left physically crippled or …
Energy humanities is a field of scholarship that, like medical and digital humanities before it, aims to overcome traditional boundaries between the disciplines and between …
Explores the growing water supply crisis through an ethnographic study of a rural minority community in China threatened by climate change.China is experiencing climate …
As any American who has traveled abroad knows, the American home contains more, and more elaborate, plumbing than any other in the world. Indeed, Americans are renowned for their …
How a community in Cairo, Egypt, has adapted the many systems required for clean water.Who is responsible for ensuring access to clean potable water? In an urbanizing planet beset …
The people, policies, and forces transforming a national treasure—the Chesapeake Bay.When Captain John Smith arrived in Virginia in 1607, he discovered a paradise in the Chesapeake …
A fascinating overview of the lands and peoples of the United States and Canada, both past and present.Based on decades of research and written in clear, concise prose by one of …
Based on decades of research and written in clear, concise prose by one of the foremost geographers in North America, John C. Hudson's Across This Land is a comprehensive regional …
