Stephen Mosley
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3065149 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Stephen Mosley |
| NOMBRES | Stephen |
| APELLIDO | Mosley |
| FIRMA | MOSLEY S |
| AFILIACIONES | Leeds Beckett University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 6 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 11 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 6 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2006 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2016 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Selling the smokeless city
Urban air pollution has attracted a good deal of scholarly attention in recent years, but few historians have focused on the strong visual culture that helped to shape understandings of smoke emiss
Ian D. Whyte, A Dictionary of Environmental History
Coastal Cities and Environmental Change
This paper explores the complex environmental relationships of coastal cities with their shorelines and the sea. Cities developed in coastal locations because they offered easy access to fisheries, trade and commerce, transport, attractive scenery and recreational opportunities. However, coastal cities have also been vulnerable to the natural hazards of hurricane-force winds, tsunamis and tidal flooding; and climate change will exacerbate flood r…
Vladimir Janković, Confronting the Climate
In this short but fascinating book, Vladimir Janković explores the origins of both environmental medicine and the British preoccupation with climate. His narrative is well stocked with vivid portraits of the eighteenth-century medical practitioners and others whose ideas about exposure to unhealthy airs—both inside and outside the home—first saw, Janković argues, the emergence of modern ‘environmental risk’ issues in Britain. Medical interest in …
A Network of Trust
This paper examines the origins and development of the first nationwide air pollution monitoring network of its kind. The Investigation of Atmospheric Pollution was founded in 1912 with less than 30 participating bodies. By the 1960s it had expanded its research activities to involve over 500 cooperating authorities and organisations in almost every major British town and city. The paper is set out in three interrelated parts. Firstly, it explore…
Common Ground
Since the 1960s, one of the great strengths of social history has been its willingness to respond to contemporary concerns. However, as environmental issues have pushed their way to the top of the global political agenda, social historians have been slow to meet this new challenge. This paper examines reasons for this reluctance and, more importantly, explores the opportunities for integrating social and environmental history. It is divided into …
Common Ground
Since the 1960s, one of the great strengths of social history has been its willingness to respond to contemporary concerns. However, as environmental issues have pushed their way to the top of the global political agenda, social historians have been slow to meet this new challenge. This paper examines reasons for this reluctance and, more importantly, explores the opportunities for integrating social and environmental history. It is divided into …
A Network of Trust
This paper examines the origins and development of the first nationwide air pollution monitoring network of its kind. The Investigation of Atmospheric Pollution was founded in 1912 with less than 30 participating bodies. By the 1960s it had expanded its research activities to involve over 500 cooperating authorities and organisations in almost every major British town and city. The paper is set out in three interrelated parts. Firstly, it explore…
Coastal Cities and Environmental Change
This paper explores the complex environmental relationships of coastal cities with their shorelines and the sea. Cities developed in coastal locations because they offered easy access to fisheries, trade and commerce, transport, attractive scenery and recreational opportunities. However, coastal cities have also been vulnerable to the natural hazards of hurricane-force winds, tsunamis and tidal flooding; and climate change will exacerbate flood r…
Common Ground
Since the 1960s, one of the great strengths of social history has been its willingness to respond to contemporary concerns. However, as environmental issues have pushed their way to the top of the global political agenda, social historians have been slow to meet this new challenge. This paper examines reasons for this reluctance and, more importantly, explores the opportunities for integrating social and environmental history. It is divided into …
A Network of Trust
This paper examines the origins and development of the first nationwide air pollution monitoring network of its kind. The Investigation of Atmospheric Pollution was founded in 1912 with less than 30 participating bodies. By the 1960s it had expanded its research activities to involve over 500 cooperating authorities and organisations in almost every major British town and city. The paper is set out in three interrelated parts. Firstly, it explore…
Vladimir Janković, Confronting the Climate
In this short but fascinating book, Vladimir Janković explores the origins of both environmental medicine and the British preoccupation with climate. His narrative is well stocked with vivid portraits of the eighteenth-century medical practitioners and others whose ideas about exposure to unhealthy airs—both inside and outside the home—first saw, Janković argues, the emergence of modern ‘environmental risk’ issues in Britain. Medical interest in …
Coastal Cities and Environmental Change
This paper explores the complex environmental relationships of coastal cities with their shorelines and the sea. Cities developed in coastal locations because they offered easy access to fisheries, trade and commerce, transport, attractive scenery and recreational opportunities. However, coastal cities have also been vulnerable to the natural hazards of hurricane-force winds, tsunamis and tidal flooding; and climate change will exacerbate flood r…
Ian D. Whyte, A Dictionary of Environmental History
Selling the smokeless city
Urban air pollution has attracted a good deal of scholarly attention in recent years, but few historians have focused on the strong visual culture that helped to shape understandings of smoke emiss
American Environmental and Regional History (4 obras) · Business (2 obras) · Computer Science (2 obras) · Ecology (2 obras) · Engineering (2 obras) · Environmental planning (2 obras) · Environmental protection (2 obras) · Geography (2 obras) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (2 obras) · History (2 obras)