John H Perkins
Biographic Data
| ID | 1044504 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John H Perkins |
| GIVEN NAMES | John H |
| FAMILY NAME | Perkins |
| SIGNATURE | PERKINS J H |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Evergreen State College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5933-4174 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Jerry A. McBeath. Controversies about energy
Melanie J. La Rosa. Communities and the clean energy revolution
Daniel Yergin. The new map
Climate
A new framework for environmental education about energy transition
Background, approaches, and resources for teaching energy in environmental studies
Closing Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant, 2009–2018
Modern economies cannot function without electricity, and production of electric power affects citizens in many ways, including climate change. Production of electricity requires investments that easily reach billions of dollars, and streams of investment capital must be perpetual to procure fuel, build and maintain plants, and transmit electricity to customers. This case study addresses whether a California decision relevant to investments about…
Energy Field Trips
Energy poses challenges to environmental studies because of climate change and other effects, and field trips are indispensable aids to learning. They enable students to see situations first-hand, and many are joyous and fun, such as field trips to forests, wetlands, wildlife reserves, or communities exhibiting positive contributions to safeguarding the natural world. Field trips to the built environment, especially those illustrating sites with …
Naomi Klein
Energy education and the dilemma of mitigating climate change
Development of risk assessment for nuclear power
American Pests
James E. McWilliams's book seeks to frame within a paradox a comprehensive interpretation of agricultural insect pests from colonial times to the present. He argues that Americans sought to control nature for economic development but that insecticides undermined the ultimate goal. McWilliams recounts the contributions of early scientists such as Timothy Dwight (president of Yale University), Thaddeus William Harris (librarian at Harvard Universit…
The Fire Ant Wars
Reviewed by: The Fire Ant Wars: Nature, Science, and Public Policy in Twentieth-Century America John H. Perkins (bio) The Fire Ant Wars: Nature, Science, and Public Policy in Twentieth-Century America. By Joshua Blu Buhs. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. Pp. x+216. $22.50. Joshua Blu Buhs's book is an environmental history that uses conflict about the imported fire ant (Solenopsis invicta) as a way of understanding the relationship bet…
The Agricultural Revolution of the Twentieth Century. Don Paarlberg , Philip Paarlberg
Nature Wars
The Living Fields
Cuba, Mexico, and India
Coins for Conflict
(1992). Coins for Conflict: Nickel and the Axis, 1933–1945. The Historian: Vol. 55, No. 1, pp. 85-100
The Rockefeller Foundation and the green revolution, 1941?1956
Seeds, Scientists, and Modern Agriculture
Regional Economic Development in Germany before 1914
Journal Article Regional Economic Development in Germany before 1914: The Case of the Eichsfeld Get access John Perkins John Perkins University of New South Wales Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 8, Issue 2, April 1990, Pages 129–144, https://doi.org/10.1093/gh/8.2.129 Published: 01 April 1990
Convict Labour and the Australian Agricultural Company
Introduction Inspired by the Bigge Report of 1823, with its emphasis upon encouraging the inflow of capital to promote rural enterprise, the Australian Agricultural Company was formed in 1824, through a combination of Act of Parliament (5 Geo IV., cap. 86) and Royal Charter, to acquire a large area of land in the colony of New South Wales. According to a German writer of the 1930s, with the entry of this enterprise into the field, ‘The actual ope…
Science and the Law
Environment, Technology, and Health
Reshaping Technology in Wartime
The insecticidal properties of DDT, a chlorinated hydrocarbon insecticide,1 were discovered by Paul Herman Mueller of the Swiss firm J. R. Geigy S.A. in 1939. The material was introduced into the United States in 1942 in the midst of World War II. The subsequent development and adoption of DDT substantially altered insect-control technologies and practicies. The developmental work leading to DDT's adoption provides an interesting case study for e…
The Rockefeller Foundation and the green revolution, 1941?1956
Energy education and the dilemma of mitigating climate change
A new framework for environmental education about energy transition
Cuba, Mexico, and India
Background, approaches, and resources for teaching energy in environmental studies
Development of risk assessment for nuclear power
Regional Economic Development in Germany before 1914
Journal Article Regional Economic Development in Germany before 1914: The Case of the Eichsfeld Get access John Perkins John Perkins University of New South Wales Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 8, Issue 2, April 1990, Pages 129–144, https://doi.org/10.1093/gh/8.2.129 Published: 01 April 1990
Reshaping Technology in Wartime
The insecticidal properties of DDT, a chlorinated hydrocarbon insecticide,1 were discovered by Paul Herman Mueller of the Swiss firm J. R. Geigy S.A. in 1939. The material was introduced into the United States in 1942 in the midst of World War II. The subsequent development and adoption of DDT substantially altered insect-control technologies and practicies. The developmental work leading to DDT's adoption provides an interesting case study for e…
The Puzzling Illness of Charles Darwin
The Puzzling Illness of Charles Darwin: An Essay Review Get access BURTON BLEDSTEIN . The Culture of Professionalism: The Middle Class and the Development of Higher Education in America. New York, W. W. Norton and Company, Inc., 1976. xii, 354 pp. $12.95. DALE C. SMITH, PH.D. DALE C. SMITH, PH.D. candidate Department of the History of Medicine, University of MinnesotaMinneapolis, Minnesota 55455 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Ac…
The Puzzling Illness of Charles Darwin
The Puzzling Illness of Charles Darwin: An Essay Review Get access BURTON BLEDSTEIN . The Culture of Professionalism: The Middle Class and the Development of Higher Education in America. New York, W. W. Norton and Company, Inc., 1976. xii, 354 pp. $12.95. DALE C. SMITH, PH.D. DALE C. SMITH, PH.D. candidate Department of the History of Medicine, University of MinnesotaMinneapolis, Minnesota 55455 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Ac…
Reshaping Technology in Wartime
The insecticidal properties of DDT, a chlorinated hydrocarbon insecticide,1 were discovered by Paul Herman Mueller of the Swiss firm J. R. Geigy S.A. in 1939. The material was introduced into the United States in 1942 in the midst of World War II. The subsequent development and adoption of DDT substantially altered insect-control technologies and practicies. The developmental work leading to DDT's adoption provides an interesting case study for e…
Environment, Technology, and Health
Science and the Law
Convict Labour and the Australian Agricultural Company
Introduction Inspired by the Bigge Report of 1823, with its emphasis upon encouraging the inflow of capital to promote rural enterprise, the Australian Agricultural Company was formed in 1824, through a combination of Act of Parliament (5 Geo IV., cap. 86) and Royal Charter, to acquire a large area of land in the colony of New South Wales. According to a German writer of the 1930s, with the entry of this enterprise into the field, ‘The actual ope…
The Rockefeller Foundation and the green revolution, 1941?1956
Seeds, Scientists, and Modern Agriculture
Regional Economic Development in Germany before 1914
Journal Article Regional Economic Development in Germany before 1914: The Case of the Eichsfeld Get access John Perkins John Perkins University of New South Wales Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 8, Issue 2, April 1990, Pages 129–144, https://doi.org/10.1093/gh/8.2.129 Published: 01 April 1990
Coins for Conflict
(1992). Coins for Conflict: Nickel and the Axis, 1933–1945. The Historian: Vol. 55, No. 1, pp. 85-100
Cuba, Mexico, and India
Nature Wars
The Living Fields
The Agricultural Revolution of the Twentieth Century. Don Paarlberg , Philip Paarlberg
The Fire Ant Wars
Reviewed by: The Fire Ant Wars: Nature, Science, and Public Policy in Twentieth-Century America John H. Perkins (bio) The Fire Ant Wars: Nature, Science, and Public Policy in Twentieth-Century America. By Joshua Blu Buhs. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. Pp. x+216. $22.50. Joshua Blu Buhs's book is an environmental history that uses conflict about the imported fire ant (Solenopsis invicta) as a way of understanding the relationship bet…
American Pests
James E. McWilliams's book seeks to frame within a paradox a comprehensive interpretation of agricultural insect pests from colonial times to the present. He argues that Americans sought to control nature for economic development but that insecticides undermined the ultimate goal. McWilliams recounts the contributions of early scientists such as Timothy Dwight (president of Yale University), Thaddeus William Harris (librarian at Harvard Universit…
Energy education and the dilemma of mitigating climate change
Development of risk assessment for nuclear power
Naomi Klein
Closing Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant, 2009–2018
Modern economies cannot function without electricity, and production of electric power affects citizens in many ways, including climate change. Production of electricity requires investments that easily reach billions of dollars, and streams of investment capital must be perpetual to procure fuel, build and maintain plants, and transmit electricity to customers. This case study addresses whether a California decision relevant to investments about…
Energy Field Trips
Energy poses challenges to environmental studies because of climate change and other effects, and field trips are indispensable aids to learning. They enable students to see situations first-hand, and many are joyous and fun, such as field trips to forests, wetlands, wildlife reserves, or communities exhibiting positive contributions to safeguarding the natural world. Field trips to the built environment, especially those illustrating sites with …
Climate
A new framework for environmental education about energy transition
Background, approaches, and resources for teaching energy in environmental studies
Daniel Yergin. The new map
Melanie J. La Rosa. Communities and the clean energy revolution
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