This book is an historical examination of environmental justice struggles across the globe from t...

Assembles a comprehensive researched and referenced history of sanitary services in urban America...

Atomic Age America looks at the broad influence of atomic energy focusing particularly on nuclear...

From semitropical coastal areas to high mountain terrain, from swampy lowlands to modern cities, ...

For millennia, urban centers were pivots of power and trade that ruled and linked rural majoritie...

From semitropical coastal areas to high mountain terrain, from swampy lowlands to modern cities, ...

Houston's meteoric rise from a bayou trading post to the world's leading oil supplier owes much t...

As an essential resource, water has been the object of warfare, political wrangling, and individu...

Fossil fuels propelled industries and nations into the modern age and continue to powerfully infl...

Immersed in their on-demand, highly consumptive, and disposable lifestyles, most urban Americans ...

Fresh Kills—a monumental 2,200-acre structure on Staten Island—was once the world’s largest landf...