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“Politics with Will Kymlicka”

In this episode of The Animal Turn, Claudia Hirtenfelder talks about politics and animals with philosopher Will Kymlicka.

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“Animal Rights with Will Kymlicka”

In this episode of The Animal Turn, Claudia Hirtenfelder talks animal rights with philosopher Will Kymlicka.

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The Cactus Hunters: Desire and Extinction in the Illicit Succulent Trade

A book exploring the world of succulent collecting.

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Historic Lake Level Variability and Current Disasters on the Shores of Lake...

Gooding, Philip

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“Too Much Loose Sand:” Narrating Coastal Erosion in Southeast Ireland

Connolly, ClaireMcDaid, AilbheSmith, James L.

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Exploraciones subterráneas: Siguiendo la (in)visibilidad geotérmica de los...

Full text in Spanish of Rachel Carson Center alumnus Martín Fonck’s dissertation.

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“From Slavery Plantations to Mass Tourism: A Project for a Synthesis of the...

In this video, Reinaldo Funes Monzote (Hamburg Institute for Advanced Studies) presents his project “From Slavery Plantations to Mass Tourism: A Project for a Synthesis of the Environmental History of...

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“The Club of Rome”

A Tuesday discussion with Graeme Maxton.

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The Eclipse of Urbanism and the Greening of Public Space

In this book, Mark Luccarelli pushes past unproductive mind/body debates by rooting the rise of environmental awareness in the political and geographical history of the US.

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Anne Frank’s Tree: Nature’s Confrontation with Technology, Domination, and...

In this book, environmental philosopher Eric Katz explores technology’s role in dominating both nature and humanity.

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“Is This a Society of Humans or of Dogs?”: The Issue of Roaming Dogs in...

Botetzagias, Iosif

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Land, Water, Air and Freedom: The Making of World Movements for Environmental...

Full text of Joan Martínez-Alier’s Land, Water, Air and Freedom: The Making of World Movements for Environmental Justice (2023).

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Paradise Blues: Travels Through American Environmental History

Full text of Rachel Carson Center director Christof Mauch’s Paradise Blues: Travels Through American Environmental History.

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Capturing Glaciers: A History of Repeat Photography and Global Warming

A book on the history of repeat photography of glaciers.

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One Century of Reindeer on South Georgia: From Introduction to Eradication

Heidbrink, Ingo K.

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“The Cistern-System of Early Modern Venice: Technology, Politics and Culture...

In this article, David Gentilcore writes about the Venetian cistern-system and its a success as a technology for treating rainwater.

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“‘Cool and Tasty Waters’: Managing Naples’s Water Supply, c. 1500–c. 1750”

In this article, David Gentilcore writes about the water supply of Naples, Italy, in the early modern period.

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Environment and Infrastructure: Challenges, Knowledge and Innovation from the...

An edited volume environment and infrastructure in the late middle ages to our days.

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“Technology as a Strategy of the Human? A Comparison Between the Extension...

In this article, David Gentilcore writes about the Venetian cistern-system and its a success as a technology for treating rainwater.

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Dreams of Optimizing the Ocean: The 1970 Deepsea Ventures Mining Test and...

Carboex, Yoram

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