AHRConversation: Environmental Historians and Environmental Crisis

The Looming Environmental Crisis

water contaminants and bacteria that increases the risk of becoming ill (9-11). Even more worrisome is that this only appears to be the beginning since the global shift in climate and temperatures are expected to worsen in the coming years, since the world appears to be committed to several more decades of warming (9). An equally worrying trend has also been observed in air quality and the pote...

The U.S. Environmental Movement: Crisis or Transition?

We address the debate surrounding the current status of the U.S. environmental movement. Using measures of ecological and public policy impact, we show that the U.S. environmental movement has failed to prevent the continuing negative growth of the U.S. ecological footprint and, since the early 1990s, has been blocked in its national legislative agenda. We trace this failure to the dominance wi...

The Aral Sea environmental health crisis

The Aral Sea was once the fourth largest inland body of water on earth with a surface area of 66,000 km. In 1960, the mean water level was 53.4 m and it contained 1090 km of water (Glantz 1999). The destruction of the sea and its ecosystems constitutes one of the greatest man-made environmental disasters in history. The ecological catastrophe has been associated with a sharp decline in the heal...

The Anthropology of Madagascar’s Environmental Crisis

Creative Solutions to Global Environmental Crisis