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Examines the Intersection of Energy Policy and Environmental Regulation after the 1973 OAPEC Oil Embargo

The beauty of the Hudson River Valley was a legendary subject for artists during the nineteenth century. A hundred years later, those sentiments would be tested as never before. In the fall of 1962, Consolidated Edison of New York announced plans for the construction of a pumped-storage hydroelectric power plant at Storm King Mountain on the Hudson River. Over the next eighteen years, their struggle against environmentalists would culminate in the abandonment of the project. Robert D. Lifset offers an original case history of this monumental event in environmental history.

Michael Zeheter offers a probing case study of the environmental changes made to fight cholera in two markedly different British colonies: Madras in India and Quebec City in Canada. He examines the complex political and economic factors that came to bear on the reshaping of each colony's environment and the urgency placed on disease control.

City on Fire is a chronicle of progress and danger, that integrates urban environmental history with histories of technology, science, and medicine to reveal how Mexico City changed in response to the growing threat of fire in the urban center.

A Negotiated Landscape examines the transformation of San Francisco's iconic waterfront from the eve of its decline in 1950 to the turn of the millennium.

The US shale boom and efforts by other countries to exploit their shale resources could reshape energy and environmental landscapes across the world.

The Standard Oil Company emerged out of obscurity in the 1860s to capture 90 percent of the petroleum refining industry in the United States during the Gilded Age.

At the nexus between environmental, urban, and water histories, Rivers Lost, Rivers Regained points out how the urban-river relationship can serve as a prime vantage point to analyze fundamental issues of modern environmental attitudes and practices.

In January 1969, the blowout on an offshore oil platform off the coast of Santa Barbara, California, and the resulting oil spill proved to be a transformative event in pollution control and the nascent environmental activism movement.

Joel Tarr presents a collection of essays examining the tortured environmental history of Pittsburgh, a region blessed with an abundance of natural resources as well as a history of intensive industrial development. Awarded the 2005 Certificate of Commendation by Choice Magazine

The environmental history of London during the modern and contemporary period.

Confronts the toxic landscapes that pervade modern life, from nuclear radiation to pesticides.

The history of Detroit through an environmental lens.

First English examination of driving forces of environmental change due to post-war reconstruction in Italy.

As people crowded into British cities in the nineteenth century, industrial and biological waste byproducts, and then epidemic followed them. Britons died by the thousands in recurring plagues.

Urban Rivers examines urban interventions on rivers through politics, economics, sanitation systems, technology, and societies; how rivers affected urbanization spatially, in infrastructure, territorial disputes, and in flood plains, and via their changing ecologies.

As an essential resource, water has been the object of warfare, political wrangling, and individual and corporate abuse. Melosi examines water resources in the United States and addresses whether access to water is an inalienable right of citizens, and if government is responsible for its distribution as a public good.

The weekly magazine Garden and Forest existed for only nine years (1888-1897). As Hou shows, the publication also promoted forest management and preservation, not only as a natural resource but as an economic one. Shen Hou's study gives Garden and Forest its due and adds an important new chapter to the early history of American environmentalism.

The contributors also view the environmental impact of energy industries and demonstrate how, in the depletion of reserves or a shift to new energy sources, regions have or have not been able to recover economically.

The Age of Smoke provides an original, comparative history of environmental policy development in Germany and the United States from 1880 to 1970, and the rise of civic activism to combat air pollution.

Metropolitan Natures presents original histories of the diverse environments that constitute Montreal and its region. It explores the agricultural and industrial transformation of the metropolitan area, the interaction of city and hinterland, and the interplay of humans and nature.

Comprised of essays by geologists, ecologists, and historians, this study examines the development of Los Angeles as an example of the complex interactions between urban planning and nature.

Examines how 19th-century notions of progress, community, and nature shaped German urban peripheries.

This revised edition of a seminal work in the field of urban environmental history traces the development of waste management and related technologies from the Progressive Era to the present.

From prehistoric midden building to late twentieth century industrial pollution, Transforming New Orleans and Its Environs traces through history the impact of human activity upon the environment of this fascinating and unpredictable region.

This volume assembles leading experts in policy, history, and activism to address Israel's continuing environmental transformation from the biblical era through its future aspirations, with a particular focus on the past one hundred and fifty years.

New insight into how modern New York City transformed its air, land, and water as it grew.

A comprehensive history of the development of Houston, examining the factors that have facilitated unprecedented growth - and the environmental cost of that development.

A comprehensive history of "happenstance plants" in American urban environments. Beginning in the late nineteenth century and continuing to the present, Falck examines the proliferation, perception, and treatment of weeds in metropolitan centers from Boston to Los Angeles.

Garbage, wastewater, hazardous waste: these are the lenses through which Melosi views nineteenth- and twentieth-century America. In broad overviews and specific case studies, Melosi treats the relationship between industrial expansion and urban growth from an ecological perspective.