Record Type: Book
Author(s): Stewart, Richard Burleson and Jane Bloom Stewart
Title: Fuel Cycle to Nowhere: U.S. Law and Policy on Nuclear Waste
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Place of Publication: Nashville
Date of Publication: 2011
Description: xvi + 427 pp. Maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index.
Abstract: A history of nuclear waste regulatory law and policy in the United States from 1946 to 2010. Topics examined include nuclear waste classification, nuclear waste transport, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), Yucca Mountain, nuclear waste disposal options, and more.
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Record Type: Book
Author(s): Swart, Sandra
Title: Riding High: Horses, Humans and History in South Africa
Publisher: Wits University Press
Place of Publication: Johannesburg
Date of Publication: 2010
Description: xiv + 344 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, notes, bibliography, index.
Abstract: A history of the impacts of horses on human society in South Africa over the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Looks at how horses transformed the physical and social environments of South Africa, and their impact on transportation, trade, colonialism, warfare, agriculture, and economic growth.
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Record Type: Book
Author(s): Walsham, Alexandra
Title: The Reformation of the Landscape: Religion, Identity, and Memory in Early
Modern Britain and Ireland
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Place of Publication: New York
Date of Publication: 2011
Description: xvi + 637 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index.
Abstract: A study of the relationship between the landscape and religious change in Britain and Ireland during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Looks at how physical spaces and the natural world influenced cultural change during the Protestant Reformation period.
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Record Type: Book
Author(s): Janus, Edward
Title: Creating Dairyland: How Caring for Cows Saved Our Soil, Created Our
Landscape, Brought Prosperity to Our State, and Still Shapes Our Way of Life in Wisconsin
Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society Press
Place of Publication: Madison, WI
Date of Publication: 2011
Description: xix + 208 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index.
Abstract: A history of the dairy industry in Wisconsin from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, examining its impact on the state’s economy, culture, and natural landscape.
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Record Type: Book
Author(s): Stevenson, Susan K.
Title: British Columbia’s Inland Rainforest: Ecology, Conservation, and Management
Publisher: UBC Press
Place of Publication: Vancouver
Date of Publication: 2011
Description: xxi + 432 pp. Illustrations, maps, figures, tables, bibliography, index.
Abstract: A physical, historical, social, and ecological look at the distinctive inland rainforest ecosystem in southeastern British Columbia. Looks at human use of the forest over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, timber harvesting, reforestation, the effects of forest management on biodiversity, and the impacts of climate change.
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Record Type: Book
Author(s): Smith, Mark M.
Title: Camille, 1969: Histories of a Hurricane
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Place of Publication: Athens
Date of Publication: 2011
Description: xvi + 71 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index.
Abstract: A history of Hurricane Camille’s impact on the Mississippi Gulf Coast in 1969. Discusses the racial and political contexts that shaped the storm’s impact and recovery.
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Record Type: Book
Editor(s): Rotherham, Ian D. and Robert A. Lambert
Title: Invasive and Introduced Plants and Animals: Human
Perceptions, Attitudes, and Approaches to Management
Publisher: Earthscan
Place of Publication: Washington, DC
Date of Publication: 2011
Description: xvi + 375 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, index.
Abstract: A collection of essays on the environmental concerns of invasive plant and animal species, using case studies from around the world. Includes analysis of changing human perceptions of invasive and exotic species through history, and the shifting functions of these species within their adopted landscapes. Topics addresses include historical issues related to invasive species in Great Britain, New Zealand, the United States, South Africa, Japan, Australia, and more.
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Record Type: Book
Author(s): Robbins, William G. and Katrine Barber
Title: Nature’s Northwest: The North Pacific Slope in the Twentieth
Century
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Place of Publication: Tucson
Date of Publication: 2011
Description: xxi + 286 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, index.
Abstract: An environmental, cultural, and political history of the Pacific Northwest during the twentieth century. Looks at development and landscape change in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, and southern British Columbia. Examines issues related to population growth, Native American rights, industrialization, water resources, environmental activism, and more.
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Record Type: Book
Author(s): Oslund, Karen
Title: Iceland Imagined: Nature, Culture, and Storytelling in the North Atlantic
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Place of Publication: Seattle
Date of Publication: 2011
Description: xvi + 260 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index.
Abstract: A cultural and environmental history of the North Atlantic, looking at Iceland, Greenland, Northern Norway, and the Faroe Islands. Discusses changing representations and interpretations of North Atlantic landscapes over time, through the use of art, literature, and natural history.
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Record Type: Book
Author(s): Ogden, Laura A.
Title: Swamplife: People, Gators, and Mangroves Entangled in the Everglades
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Place of Publication: Minneapolis
Date of Publication: 2011
Description: xiv + 185 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index.
Abstract: An examination of the history and culture of the Florida Everglades landscape. Looks at the rural population living in the Everglades over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and human experiences with the landscape such as the outlaw stories of the Ashley Gang.
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Record Type: Book
Editor(s): Myllyntaus, Timo
Title: Thinking through the Environment: Green Approaches to Global History
Publisher: White Horse Press
Place of Publication: Cambridge
Date of Publication: 2011
Description: xv + 296 pp. Illustrations, maps, figures, index.
Abstract: A collection of essays examining relationships between politics, culture, and the environment in various locations throughout the world. Topics include cultural perceptions of landscapes, indigenous ecological knowledge, natural disasters, managing rivers, urban environments, and more.
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Record Type: Book
Author(s): Murray, Martin J.
Title: City of Extremes: The Spatial Politics of Johannesburg
Publisher: Duke University Press
Place of Publication: Durham
Date of Publication: 2011
Description: xxix + 470 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index.
Abstract: A history of post-apartheid urban development in greater Johannesburg, South Africa. Looks at the social, racial, political, and environmental impacts of urban development in the city during the 1990s and 2000s.
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Record Type: Book
Author(s): Mikhail, Alan
Title: Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt: An Environmental History
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication: New York
Date of Publication: 2011
Description: xxxi + 347 pp. Illustrations, maps, figures, tables, bibliography, index.
Abstract: An environmental history of Egypt under the Ottoman Empire from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. Looks at natural resource management under the Ottoman system, including irrigation projects, canal construction, agriculture, and the timber trade.
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Record Type: Book
Author(s): McVoy, Christopher W., et al.
Title: Landscapes and Hydrology of the Predrainage Everglades
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Place of Publication: Gainesville
Date of Publication: 2011
Description: xxii + 342 pp. Illustrations, maps, figures, tables, bibliography, index.
Abstract: A study of the historical ecology of the Florida Everglades, focusing on the impact of drainage projects on the ecosystem. Examines changes in the Everglades landscape from the first drainage in the 1880s to the late twentieth century. Provides detailed information on the effects of major draining efforts throughout this time period.
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Record Type: Book
Author(s): McKay, Marylin J.
Title: Picturing the Land: Narrating Territories in Canadian Landscape Art, 1500-1950
Publisher: McGill-Queen’s University Press
Place of Publication: Montreal
Date of Publication: 2011
Description: xviii + 359 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index.
Abstract: Analyzes 450 years of Canadian landscape art, from 1500 to 1950. From the earliest illustrated maps made by French and English explorers, to modern landscape paintings from the twentieth century, this work considers the culture and geography represented in Canada’s landscape artwork.
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Record Type: Book
Author(s): Klemek, Christopher
Title: The Transatlantic Collapse of Urban Renewal: Postwar Urbanism from New York to Berlin
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Place of Publication: Chicago
Date of Publication: 2011
Description: x + 315 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index.
Abstract: Traces the rise and fall of post-war urban renewal over the course of the twentieth century in the United States, Canada, and Europe. Examines city planning policy in Berlin, New York, London, Philadelphia, Toronto, Boston, and many other locations.
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Record Type: Book
Author(s): Hevly, Bruce and John M. Findlay
Title: Atomic Frontier Days: Hanford and the American West
Publisher: University of Washington
Place of Publication: Seattle
Date of Publication: 2011
Description: xv + 368 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index.
Abstract: A history of the nuclear research and development site at Hanford, Washington. Looks at the environmental impacts of this industrial site on the Columbia River, where plutonium was manufactured for nuclear weapons from the 1940s to the 1980s. Examines the relationship between the Hanford nuclear site and the local community from the post-war period through the beginning of the twenty-first century.
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Record Type: Book
Author(s): Feldman, James W.
Title: A Storied Wilderness: Rewilding the Apostle Islands
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Place of Publication: Seattle
Date of Publication: 2011
Description: xvii + 324 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index.
Abstract: A history of human interaction with the environment of the Apostle Islands, located in Lake Superior off the coast of Wisconsin. Looks at nineteenth and twentieth century natural resource extraction on the island, including logging and fishing industry activity. Follows the movement to conserve the Apostle Islands landscape, ultimately leading to their designation as a protected national lakeshore.
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Record Type: Book
Author(s): Desfor, Gene and Jennefer Laidley
Title: Reshaping Toronto’s Waterfront
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Place of Publication: Toronto
Date of Publication: 2011
Description: 392 pp. Illustrations, notes, index.
Abstract: Follows changes to Toronto’s shoreline from the nineteenth century through the early twenty-first century. Examines the economic, social, environmental, and political factors that effected change in the city’s waterfront environment over this time period.
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Record Type: Book
Author(s): Davis, Richard A.
Title: Sea-Level Change in the Gulf of Mexico
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Place of Publication: College Station
Date of Publication: 2011
Description: ix + 172 pp. Illustrations, maps, figures, index.
Abstract: Examines the causes and effects of rising and falling sea levels in the Gulf of Mexico from prehistoric time through the twenty-first century. Looks at the impacts of global warming, earthquakes, weather events, and sedimentation on sea levels. Also discusses specific issues effecting the Florida and Texas gulf coasts, such as wetland areas, barrier islands, and more.
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Record Type: Book
Author(s): Clark, Timothy
Title: The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and the Environment
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication: New York
Date of Publication: 2011
Description: xiv + 254 pp. Illustrations, notes, index.
Abstract: A study of literary and cultural criticism that addresses environmental issues. Takes an ecocritical look at nineteenth and twentieth century European and American literature, posing questions concerning environmental and ecological issues.
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Record Type: Book
Editor(s): Castonguay, Stephane and Michele Dagenais
Title: Metropolitan Natures: Environmental Histories of Montreal
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Place of Publication: Pittsburgh
Date of Publication: 2011
Description: 321 pp. Illustrations, maps, figures, tables, notes, index.
Abstract: Collection of articles on environmental history topics in Montreal, Quebec between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries. Topics include urban development, water resources, floods, road construction, landscape change, industrialization, and more.
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Record Type: Book
Author(s): Brown, Karen
Title: Mad Dogs and Meerkats: A History of Resurgent Rabies in Southern Africa
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Place of Publication: Athens
Date of Publication: 2011
Description: xiv + 234 pp. Illustrations, figures, maps, notes, bibliography, index.
Abstract: A study of rabies in South Africa, including a history of the spread of the disease over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Looks at connections between rabies and environmental changes, European colonialism, and global trade. Author also shows effects of increasing feral dog populations, poverty, and ineffective disease control.
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Record Type: Book
Editor(s): Brantz, Dorothee and Sonja Dumpelmann
Title: Greening the City: Urban Landscapes in the Twentieth Century
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Place of Publication: Charlottesville
Date of Publication: 2011
Description: vii + 246 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index.
Abstract: A collection of essays examining green spaces in the urban environments of various cities throughout the world. Focuses on the twentieth century, and looks at issues related to urban planning, parks, public space, urban ecology, and the relationship between cities and nature.
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Record Type: Book
Author(s): Beattie, James
Title: Empire and Environmental Anxiety: Health, Science, Art and Conservation in South Asia and Australasia, 1800-1920
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Place of Publication: New York
Date of Publication: 2011
Description: xv + 320 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index.
Abstract: Examines the links between imperialism and environmental change, with a focus on how European colonization set in motion a series of unintended environmental consequences in South Asia and Australia from 1800 to 1920. Looks at European perceptions of unknown foreign environments, and the negative colonial impacts on the environment through deforestation, erosion, and desertification.
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Record Type: Article
Author(s): Wolfe, Mikael
Title: Bringing the Revolution to the Dam Site: How Technology, Labor, and Nature
Converged in the Microcosm of a Northern Mexican Company Town, 1936-1946
Journal: Journal of the Southwest
Publication Info: Vol. 53 (Spring): 1-32 pp.
Date of Publication: 2010
Abstract: An examination of rural dam construction sites and the associated company towns in Mexico during the post-revolutionary period of the 1930s and 1940s. Looks at the government’s use of technology, labor, and nature within the context of achieving revolutionary ideals. Article focuses on the Palmito dam project on the Nazas River near Torreon.

Record Type: Article
Author(s): Wilson, Robert
Title: Landscapes of Promise and Betrayal: Reclamation, Homesteading, and Japanese
American Incarceration
Journal: Annals of the Association of American Geographers
Publication Info: Vol. 101 (2): 424-444 pp.
Date of Publication: 2011
Abstract: Three of the ten World War II Japanese American internment camps were built on U.S. Bureau of Reclamation irrigation projects, which the agency developed as agrarian landscapes for white settlers. This article examines the Klamath Basin, home to one of the first federal irrigation projects and the site of the Tule Lake War Relocation Center, the largest concentration camp built during the war. The study raises questions about who benefited from state-directed land transformations in the West, whom the nation decided to honor after the war, and how these preferences were etched into the landscape.

Record Type: Article
Author(s): Thomas, Mike
Title: The Guardian
Journal: National Parks
Publication Info: Vol. 85 (Summer): 24-32 pp.
Date of Publication: 2011
Abstract: A biographical portrait of George Hartzog (1920-2008), attorney and Director of the U.S. National Park Service from 1964 to 1972. Examines Hartzog’s life and career with the Park Service, including his influential work on the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 and the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971.

Record Type: Article
Author(s): Sayre, Nathan F.
Title: A History of Land Use and Natural Resources in the Middle San Pedro River Valley,
Arizona
Journal: Journal of the Southwest
Publication Info: Vol. 53 (Spring): 87-137 pp.
Date of Publication: 2010
Abstract: A history of land use along the San Pedro River in southeastern Arizona from early Native American settlements to the end of the twentieth century. Follows settlement patterns and natural resource use through Native American, Spanish, Mexican, and United States history, looking at issues such as water use, ranching, farming, land ownership, and more.

Record Type: Article
Author(s): Rudel, Thomas K., et al.
Title: From Middle to Upper Class Sprawl? Land Use Controls and Changing
Patterns of Real Estate Development in Northern New Jersey
Journal: Annals of the Association of American Geographers
Publication Info: Vol. 101 (3): 609-624 pp.
Date of Publication: 2011
Abstract: Studies land use controls and changing patterns of real estate development in northern New Jersey. Looks at how local laws promoted suburban sprawl over the second half of the twentieth century.

Record Type: Article
Author(s): Ramankutty, Navin, et al.
Title: Prevailing Myths About Agricultural Abandonment and Forest Regrowth in
the United States
Journal: Annals of the Association of American Geographers
Publication Info: Vol. 100 (3): 502-512 pp.
Date of Publication: 2010
Abstract: The authors reexamined the historical data to find that cropland and forest area for the United States as a whole have not undergone large-scale abandonment and regrowth, but rather stabilized around the mid-twentieth century. Croplands were indeed abandoned in the eastern portions of the continent accompanied by forest regrowth, but there was compensating cropland expansion and forest clearing in the West. The study suggests the need to exercise caution when using historical data to understand land-cover change and for developing theories such as forest transition.

Record Type: Article
Author(s): Peluso, Nancy Lee and Peter Vandergeest
Title: Political Ecologies of War and Forests: Counterinsurgencies and the Making of National Natures
Journal: Annals of the Association of American Geographers
Publication Info: Vol. 101 (3): 587-608 pp.
Date of Publication: 2011
Abstract: Studies the significance of “insurgencies” and “emergencies” staged from forested territories during the Cold War era.

Record Type: Article
Author(s): Murray, Karen Bridget
Title: Making Space in Vancouver’s East End: From Leonard Marsh to the Vancouver
Agreement
Journal: BC Studies
Publication Info: Vol. 169 (Spring): 7-49 pp.
Date of Publication: 2011
Abstract: A study of post-World War II urban policy and planning in Vancouver’s East End neighborhood. Examines links between poverty, the use of local spaces, and urban planning.

Record Type: Article
Author(s): McLaughlin, Mark J.
Title: Green Shoots: Aerial Insecticide Spraying and the Growth of Environmental
Consciousness in New Brunswick, 1952-1973
Journal: Acadiensis
Publication Info: Vol. 40 (Winter/Spring): 2-23 pp.
Date of Publication: 2011
Abstract: A history of the spruce budworm spraying program in New Brunswick, Canada, during the 1950s and 1960s. Examines how opposition developed to the program and how the spraying issue became a primary motivator for the growth of modern environmentalism in New Brunswick.

Record Type: Article
Author(s): Leese, Benjamin E.
Title: Bird of Mystery, Bird of Legend: The Ivory-Billed Woodpecker
Journal: Timeline
Publication Info: Vol. 28 (July/September): 20-27 pp.
Date of Publication: 2011
Abstract: A history of the ivory-billed woodpecker, investigating a possible historical presence in the state of Ohio. Uses historical journal accounts to confirm the iconic bird’s early nineteenth century appearance in what is now Ohio.

Record Type: Article
Author(s): Wilkening, Ken
Title: Locating the Mississippi: Landscape, Nature, and National Territoriality at the
Mississippi Headwaters
Journal: American Quarterly
Publication Info: Vol. 62 (2): 303-333 pp.
Date of Publication: 2010
Abstract: In 1891, Minnesota created its first state park at Lake Itasca in northern Minnesota to formally recognize the source of the Mississippi River. This article explores the link between this physical site and the importance of the Mississippi River in the national imagination.

Record Type: Article
Author(s): Epstein, Yaffa
Title: From Emission to Pollution: Regulation and Changing Ideas about Smoke in the Twin
Cities
Journal: Minnesota History
Publication Info: Vol. 62 (Summer): 228-239 pp.
Date of Publication: 2011
Abstract: Looks at efforts to improve urban air quality in St. Paul and Minneapolis during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Examines smoke control efforts in both cities following the massive industrial growth of the Progressive Era. Discusses efforts to pass anti-smoke regulations and the organization of local citizen activism behind such causes as the City Beautiful movement.

Record Type: Article
Author(s): Elmore, Bartow J.
Title: Growing Roots in Rocky Soil: An Environmental History of Southern Rock
Journal: Southern Cultures
Publication Info: Vol. 16 (Fall): 102-128 pp.
Date of Publication: 2010
Abstract: Explores the impact of environmental changes in the United States South on southern rock music during the 1960s and 1970s. Discusses the shift from rural to urban, and how a dramatically transformed physical landscape in the South influenced musical groups such as the Allman Brothers Band and Lynyrd Skynyrd.

Record Type: Article
Author(s): Elmore, Bartow
Title: Hydrology and Residential Segregation in the Postwar South: An Environmental History of Atlanta, 1865-1895
Journal: Georgia Historical Quarterly
Publication Info: Vol. 94 (Spring): 30-61 pp.
Date of Publication: 2010
Abstract: Examines the environmental history of Atlanta during the thirty years following the Civil War, discussing its intersection with the segregation movement. Studies the construction of water supply infrastructure, and its impact on the city’s racial geography.

Record Type: Article
Author(s): Day, James Sanders
Title: Dealing in Black Diamonds: Joseph Squire and Alabama’s Early Coal-Mining Operations
Journal: Alabama Review
Publication Info: Vol. 64 (January): 3-29 pp.
Date of Publication: 2011
Abstract: A history of nineteenth century coal mining in Alabama focusing on the life and work of Joseph Squire, who was a miner, prospector, geologist, and overall authority on coal operations in the state. Discusses Squire’s work on geological surveys in Alabama during this time period.