Langston, Nancy (Author)
A compelling exploration of Lake Superior’s conservation recovery and what it can teach us in the face of climate change Lake Superior, the largest lake in the world, has had a remarkable history, including resource extraction and industrial exploitation that caused nearly irreversible degradation. But in the past fifty years it has experienced a remarkable recovery and rebirth. In this important book, leading environmental historian Nancy Langston offers a rich portrait of the lake’s environmental and social history, asking what lessons we should take from the conservation recovery as this extraordinary lake faces new environmental threats. In her insightful exploration, Langston reveals hope in ecosystem resilience and the power of community advocacy, noting ways Lake Superior has rebounded from the effects of deforestation and toxic waste wrought by mining and paper manufacturing. Yet, despite the lake’s resilience, threats persist. Langston cautions readers regarding new mining interests and persistent toxic pollutants that are mobilizing with climate change.
...MoreReview Daniel Macfarlane (July 2018) Review of "Sustaining Lake Superior: An Extraordinary Lake in a Changing World". Environmental History (pp. 638-639).
Review Sutter, Paul S. (October 2019) Review of "Sustaining Lake Superior: An Extraordinary Lake in a Changing World". Technology and Culture (pp. 1116-1117).
Book
François Jarrige;
Thomas Le Roux;
(2021)
The Contamination of the Earth: A History of Pollutions in the Industrial Age
(/isis/citation/CBB416267621/)
Article
J. F. M. Clark;
(2017)
Pesticides, Pollution and the UK's Silent Spring, 1963–1964: Poison in the Garden of England
(/isis/citation/CBB150498415/)
Chapter
Shigeo Sugiyama;
(2015)
Minamata Disease: Interaction Between Government, Scientists, and Media
(/isis/citation/CBB331853390/)
Book
Rodríguez Ocaña, Esteban;
Ballester Añón, Rosa;
Perdiguero, Enrique;
Medina Doménech, Rosa María;
Molero Mesa, Jorge;
(2003)
La acción médico-social contra el paludismo en la España metropolitana y colonial del siglo XX
(/isis/citation/CBB000410654/)
Article
Valoree S. Gagnon;
Emma S Norman;
Hugh S Gorman;
(2016)
Local Impacts, Global Sources: The Governance of Boundary-Crossing Chemicals
(/isis/citation/CBB473255033/)
Book
Pietz, David Allen;
(2015)
The Yellow River: The Problem of Water in Modern China
(/isis/citation/CBB001553584/)
Essay Review
Josephson, Paul;
(2013)
Science and Technology in the International Arena
(/isis/citation/CBB001566265/)
Book
Richard S. Newman;
(2016)
Love Canal: A Toxic History from Colonial Times to the Present
(/isis/citation/CBB272782783/)
Book
Williams, Michael;
(2003)
Deforesting the Earth: From Prehistory to Global Crisis
(/isis/citation/CBB000301638/)
Article
Matthew P. Johnson;
(October 2019)
Black Gold of Paradise: Negotiating Oil Pollution in the US Virgin Islands, 1966–2012
(/isis/citation/CBB282414761/)
Book
James V. Hillegas-Elting;
(2018)
Speaking for the River: Confronting Pollution on the Willamette, 1920s-1970s
(/isis/citation/CBB486173762/)
Article
Christy Spackman;
Gary A. Burlingame;
(June 2018)
Sensory politics: The tug-of-war between potability and palatability in municipal water production
(/isis/citation/CBB215070697/)
Book
Wohl, Ellen;
(2010)
A World of Rivers: Environmental Change on Ten of the World's Greatest Rivers
(/isis/citation/CBB001201858/)
Book
Lehner, Peter;
Deans, Bob;
(2010)
In Deep Water: The Anatomy of a Disaster, the Fate of the Gulf, and Ending Our Oil Addiction
(/isis/citation/CBB001033677/)
Article
David A. Dzombak;
(Winter 2011)
Nutrient Control in Large-Scale U.S. Watersheds
(/isis/citation/CBB046038065/)
Book
Reed, Peter;
(2014)
Acid Rain and the Rise of the Environmental Chemist in Nineteenth-Century Britain
(/isis/citation/CBB001551515/)
Article
Fortun, Kim;
(2004)
From Bhopal to the Informating of Environmentalism: Risk Communication in Historical Perspective
(/isis/citation/CBB000750333/)
Article
Sellers, Christopher;
(2004)
The Artificial Nature of Fluoridated Water: Between Nations, Knowledge, and Material Flows
(/isis/citation/CBB000750327/)
Chapter
Lucas, Anton;
Djati, Arief W.;
(2007)
The Politics of Environmental and Water Pollution in East Java
(/isis/citation/CBB000960077/)
Article
Tarr, Joel A.;
(2014)
Toxic Legacy: The Environmental Impact of the Manufactured Gas Industry in the United States
(/isis/citation/CBB001421227/)
Be the first to comment!