For the past quarter-century, government and the private sector have relied heavily on risk assessment for making decisions, allowing widespread environmental deterioration. In ...

A fascinating environmental history relates the impact of floods, disease, and changing technologies on New Orleans's interactions with the Mississippi, examining the conflict ...

A professor of history offers a sweeping new history of the Native American West from the earliest arrival of ancient peoples to the early nineteenth century, before the Lewis ...

Identifies the problems resulting from the technological overhaul of recent years, paying close attention to the detrimental effects that people have on nature.

Identifies the problems resulting from the technological overhaul of recent years, paying close attention to the detrimental effects that people have on nature.

The United Nations has identified the rising demand for water as one of the major threats to human and ecological health for at least a generation. Over the coming decade ...

Using an interdisciplinary approach, Kelman underscores the role that common people have played in shaping the city and portrays the Mississippi as an active participant in New ...

The massive dams of the American West were designed to serve multiple purposes: improving navigation, irrigating crops, storing water, controlling floods, and generating ...