Mill Creek and the Toxic Legacies of the Anthropocene
Using archaeology to unearth the lingering effects of capitalism at one of Western Canada's first industrial sites Revenant Waste explores the haunting afterlife of industrial waste in Edmonton's Mill Creek Ravine, one of Western Canada's earliest industrial zones. This book shows how waste shapes vulnerable communities and environments both ......
Mill Creek and the Toxic Legacies of the Anthropocene
Using archaeology to unearth the lingering effects of capitalism at one of Western Canada's first industrial sites Revenant Waste explores the haunting afterlife of industrial waste in Edmonton's Mill Creek Ravine, one of Western Canada's earliest industrial zones. This book shows how waste shapes vulnerable communities and environments both ......
This report addresses the escalating global water crisis characterized by continental drying ? the long-term decline in freshwater availability across large landmasses, highlighting trends, causes and impacts on jobs, the economy, and the planet.
A few ASEAN countries have signed the Global Methane Pledge, but methane should receive a broader and higher priority from the entire region, given its significant contribution to climate change, and the availability of solutions. The agriculture sector contributes the most amount of methane emissions with a steadily rising share over the past ......
Never in human history has travel been so accessible to so many. But amid an escalating climate crisis that threatens the homes of vulnerable people across the world, has the human cost of trekking the globe become too high? Paul Lindholdt links firsthand narratives with research about the travel trade, telling stories of his reluctant voyages ......
Walking, Hiking, and Climbing Among Forests and Trees in an Ecologically Abused World
Travel Ruminations is a personal account of the author's walking, hiking, and mountain climbing over a 75-year career in all 50 U.S. states and 38 countries, but it is more than a mere memoir. Interspersed are remarks on the ecological aspects of his environments and the devastation caused by human activity.
An interdisciplinary environmental humanities volume that explores human-environment relationships on our permanently polluted planet. While toxicity and pollution are ever present in modern daily life, politicians, juridical systems, media outlets, scholars, and the public alike show great difficulty in detecting, defining, monitoring, or ......
An interdisciplinary environmental humanities volume that explores human-environment relationships on our permanently polluted planet. While toxicity and pollution are ever present in modern daily life, politicians, juridical systems, media outlets, scholars, and the public alike show great difficulty in detecting, defining, monitoring, or ......
The Plastic Turn offers a novel way of looking at plastic as the defining material of our age and at the plasticity of plastic as an innovative means of understanding the arts and literature. Ranjan Ghosh terms this approach the material-aesthetic and, through this concept, traces the emergence and development of plastic polymers along the same ......
