Hugh S Gorman
Biographic Data
| ID | 1645903 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hugh S Gorman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hugh S |
| FAMILY NAME | Gorman |
| SIGNATURE | GORMAN H S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Michigan Technological University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6815-9980 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Phosphorus: Past and Future
In Phosphorus, Jim Elser (limnologist) and Phil Haygarth (soil scientist) provide an in-depth look at phosphorus-related barriers to sustainable agriculture. The main question they address is: How can societies continue to feed the planet's human inhabitants without increasing the quantity of phosphorus flowing into aquatic ecosystems or compromising the availability of the raw material from which the bulk of this nutrient is obtained? Elser and …
The Story of N: A Social History of the Nitrogen Cycle and the Challenge of Sustainability
In The Story of N , Hugh S. Gorman analyzes the notion of sustainability from a fresh perspective—the integration of human activities with the biogeochemical cycling of nitrogen—and provides a supportive alternative to studying sustainability through the lens of climate change and the cycling of carbon. It is the first book to examine the social processes by which industrial societies learned to bypass a fundamental ecological limit and, later, b…
Undone Science: Social Movements, Mobilized Publics, and Industrial Transitions
Undone Science: Social Movements, Mobilized Publics, and Industrial Transitions." The Social Science Journal, 55(2), pp. 208–209
Carl A. Zimring. Aluminum Upcycled: Sustainable Design in Historical Perspective
In Aluminum Upcycled, Carl A. Zimring makes the case that, regardless of the material one focuses on, successful recycling, even for material as recyclable as aluminum, depends upon one thing above all else: design that takes the process of disposal, collection, and recycling into account. This well-written book makes it clear that producers need to pay far more attention to this aspect of the equation if we are to make significant movement towar…
Local impacts, global sources: The governance of boundary-crossing chemicals
Over the last half century, a multijurisdictional, multiscale system of governance has emerged to address concerns associated with toxic chemicals that have the capacity to bioaccumulate in organisms and biomagnify in food chains, leading to fish consumption advisories. Components of this system of governance include international conventions (such as the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants and the Minamata Convention on Mercury…
Learning from 100 Years of Ammonia Synthesis. Establishing Human-Defined Limits through Adaptive Systems of Governance
100 years ago, the development of the Haber-Bosch process for synthesizing ammonia gave humans the ability to fix nitrogen on an industrial scale and freed societies from constraints associated with nitrogen-fixing bacteria. This innovation facilitated increases in the productivity of agricultural land and in the production of explosives; however, it also resulted in significantly more chemically active nitrogen being placed in circulation. Today…
DDT and the American Century: Global Health, Environmental Politics, and the Pesticide that Changed the World (review)
Reviewed by: DDT and the American Century: Global Health, Environmental Politics, and the Pesticide that Changed the World Hugh Gorman (bio) DDT and the American Century: Global Health, Environmental Politics, and the Pesticide that Changed the World. By David Kinkela. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011. Pp. xiv+256. $39.95. In DDT and the American Century, David Kinkela untangles several DDT-related themes: the chemical’s role…
Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution (review)
Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner tell how several large corporations and trade associations have, over the course of the twentieth century, deceived the public by hiding information about the toxic effects of their products. The main cases they examine—nicely integrated—involve the manufacture and use of lead paint, leaded gasoline, and vinyl chloride monomer (a petrochemical used in making polyvinyl chloride plastic). The authors, who have prev…
From Apocalypse to Way of Life: Environmental Crisis in the American Century (review)
Reviewed by: From Apocalypse to Way of Life: Environmental Crisis in the American Century Hugh S. Gorman (bio) From Apocalypse to Way of Life: Environmental Crisis in the American Century. By Frederick Buell. London and New York: Routledge, 2003. Pp. xvii+390. $29.95. Frederick Buell examines how public discourse on environmental concerns has changed over the last four decades. He argues that in the 1960s and 1970s expressions of concern carried …
Transforming New Orleans and Its Environs: Centuries of Change (review)
A fundamental premise of Transforming New Orleans and Its Environs is that one cannot separate the environmental history of New Orleans from either the history of its hinterland or from ongoing efforts to control and manage the Mississippi River. Hence, the twelve essays in Craig Colten's book focus on changes and conflicts throughout the lower Mississippi Valley, a stretch of land that runs approximately from Baton Rouge to the Delta. The first …
The Origins and Practice of Emissions Trading
An important development in the field of environmental policy has been the growing acceptance and use of emissions trading as a cost-effective means to meet and maintain environmental quality standards. In the first half of the twentieth century, emissions trading programs not only would have been seen as unnecessary; they would have been inconceivable. The legal, bureaucratic, and technological infrastructure necessary to support such systems si…
Smokestacks and Progressives: Environmentalists, Engineers, and Air Quality in America, 1881-1951 (review)
David Stradling's Smokestacks and Progressives is a solid, well-researched, and insightful examination of how coal-related smoke-control movements in the United States changed over time, starting with the activities of reformers in the late nineteenth century and ending with the success of smoke abatement programs in the decade after World War II. During this period, important shifts took place in the social identity of reform leaders, in the way…
Efficiency, Environmental Quality, and Oil Field Brines: The Success and Failure of Pollution Control by Self-Regulation
In the first half of the twentieth century, most firms sought to reduce emissions, effluents, and other pollution-causing discharges only when it resulted in the recovery of valuable material or decreased the amount of money spent on damage and nuisance suits. However, this did not necessarily mean that engineers and technical managers saw themselves—or the firms that employed them—as polluters. Rather, they assumed that as they made industrial o…
Our Children's Toxic Legacy: How Science and Law Fail to Protect Us from Pesticides by John Wargo
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 175 and business that evolved around the question of radio,” he argues, “was more a kind of tense fusion of interests and perspectives than it was one of a fundamental struggle between the opposite forces of public and private interest” (p. 84). Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover’s associational activities during the 1920s continued this cor porate-government cooperation in the development of commercial broa…
Our Children's Toxic Legacy: How Science and Law Fail to Protect Us from Pesticides
Manufacturing Brownfields: The Case of Neville Island, Pennsylvania
The steep hills, plush vegetation, and clean air of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, often surprise first-time visitors to the city. A century ago, industrial facilities and railroads spread like a vine through the valleys of the Ohio, Monongahela, and Allegheny Rivers, occupying whatever level land lay available. Today, Pittsburgh still thrives as an important urban center, but much of the heavy industry that previously dominated its economy has disapp…
The Origins and Practice of Emissions Trading
An important development in the field of environmental policy has been the growing acceptance and use of emissions trading as a cost-effective means to meet and maintain environmental quality standards. In the first half of the twentieth century, emissions trading programs not only would have been seen as unnecessary; they would have been inconceivable. The legal, bureaucratic, and technological infrastructure necessary to support such systems si…
Efficiency, Environmental Quality, and Oil Field Brines: The Success and Failure of Pollution Control by Self-Regulation
In the first half of the twentieth century, most firms sought to reduce emissions, effluents, and other pollution-causing discharges only when it resulted in the recovery of valuable material or decreased the amount of money spent on damage and nuisance suits. However, this did not necessarily mean that engineers and technical managers saw themselves—or the firms that employed them—as polluters. Rather, they assumed that as they made industrial o…
Manufacturing Brownfields: The Case of Neville Island, Pennsylvania
The steep hills, plush vegetation, and clean air of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, often surprise first-time visitors to the city. A century ago, industrial facilities and railroads spread like a vine through the valleys of the Ohio, Monongahela, and Allegheny Rivers, occupying whatever level land lay available. Today, Pittsburgh still thrives as an important urban center, but much of the heavy industry that previously dominated its economy has disapp…
Our Children's Toxic Legacy: How Science and Law Fail to Protect Us from Pesticides by John Wargo
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 175 and business that evolved around the question of radio,” he argues, “was more a kind of tense fusion of interests and perspectives than it was one of a fundamental struggle between the opposite forces of public and private interest” (p. 84). Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover’s associational activities during the 1920s continued this cor porate-government cooperation in the development of commercial broa…
Our Children's Toxic Legacy: How Science and Law Fail to Protect Us from Pesticides
Efficiency, Environmental Quality, and Oil Field Brines: The Success and Failure of Pollution Control by Self-Regulation
In the first half of the twentieth century, most firms sought to reduce emissions, effluents, and other pollution-causing discharges only when it resulted in the recovery of valuable material or decreased the amount of money spent on damage and nuisance suits. However, this did not necessarily mean that engineers and technical managers saw themselves—or the firms that employed them—as polluters. Rather, they assumed that as they made industrial o…
Smokestacks and Progressives: Environmentalists, Engineers, and Air Quality in America, 1881-1951 (review)
David Stradling's Smokestacks and Progressives is a solid, well-researched, and insightful examination of how coal-related smoke-control movements in the United States changed over time, starting with the activities of reformers in the late nineteenth century and ending with the success of smoke abatement programs in the decade after World War II. During this period, important shifts took place in the social identity of reform leaders, in the way…
Transforming New Orleans and Its Environs: Centuries of Change (review)
A fundamental premise of Transforming New Orleans and Its Environs is that one cannot separate the environmental history of New Orleans from either the history of its hinterland or from ongoing efforts to control and manage the Mississippi River. Hence, the twelve essays in Craig Colten's book focus on changes and conflicts throughout the lower Mississippi Valley, a stretch of land that runs approximately from Baton Rouge to the Delta. The first …
The Origins and Practice of Emissions Trading
An important development in the field of environmental policy has been the growing acceptance and use of emissions trading as a cost-effective means to meet and maintain environmental quality standards. In the first half of the twentieth century, emissions trading programs not only would have been seen as unnecessary; they would have been inconceivable. The legal, bureaucratic, and technological infrastructure necessary to support such systems si…
Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution (review)
Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner tell how several large corporations and trade associations have, over the course of the twentieth century, deceived the public by hiding information about the toxic effects of their products. The main cases they examine—nicely integrated—involve the manufacture and use of lead paint, leaded gasoline, and vinyl chloride monomer (a petrochemical used in making polyvinyl chloride plastic). The authors, who have prev…
From Apocalypse to Way of Life: Environmental Crisis in the American Century (review)
Reviewed by: From Apocalypse to Way of Life: Environmental Crisis in the American Century Hugh S. Gorman (bio) From Apocalypse to Way of Life: Environmental Crisis in the American Century. By Frederick Buell. London and New York: Routledge, 2003. Pp. xvii+390. $29.95. Frederick Buell examines how public discourse on environmental concerns has changed over the last four decades. He argues that in the 1960s and 1970s expressions of concern carried …
DDT and the American Century: Global Health, Environmental Politics, and the Pesticide that Changed the World (review)
Reviewed by: DDT and the American Century: Global Health, Environmental Politics, and the Pesticide that Changed the World Hugh Gorman (bio) DDT and the American Century: Global Health, Environmental Politics, and the Pesticide that Changed the World. By David Kinkela. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011. Pp. xiv+256. $39.95. In DDT and the American Century, David Kinkela untangles several DDT-related themes: the chemical’s role…
Learning from 100 Years of Ammonia Synthesis. Establishing Human-Defined Limits through Adaptive Systems of Governance
100 years ago, the development of the Haber-Bosch process for synthesizing ammonia gave humans the ability to fix nitrogen on an industrial scale and freed societies from constraints associated with nitrogen-fixing bacteria. This innovation facilitated increases in the productivity of agricultural land and in the production of explosives; however, it also resulted in significantly more chemically active nitrogen being placed in circulation. Today…
Local impacts, global sources: The governance of boundary-crossing chemicals
Over the last half century, a multijurisdictional, multiscale system of governance has emerged to address concerns associated with toxic chemicals that have the capacity to bioaccumulate in organisms and biomagnify in food chains, leading to fish consumption advisories. Components of this system of governance include international conventions (such as the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants and the Minamata Convention on Mercury…
Undone Science: Social Movements, Mobilized Publics, and Industrial Transitions
Undone Science: Social Movements, Mobilized Publics, and Industrial Transitions." The Social Science Journal, 55(2), pp. 208–209
Carl A. Zimring. Aluminum Upcycled: Sustainable Design in Historical Perspective
In Aluminum Upcycled, Carl A. Zimring makes the case that, regardless of the material one focuses on, successful recycling, even for material as recyclable as aluminum, depends upon one thing above all else: design that takes the process of disposal, collection, and recycling into account. This well-written book makes it clear that producers need to pay far more attention to this aspect of the equation if we are to make significant movement towar…
The Story of N: A Social History of the Nitrogen Cycle and the Challenge of Sustainability
In The Story of N , Hugh S. Gorman analyzes the notion of sustainability from a fresh perspective—the integration of human activities with the biogeochemical cycling of nitrogen—and provides a supportive alternative to studying sustainability through the lens of climate change and the cycling of carbon. It is the first book to examine the social processes by which industrial societies learned to bypass a fundamental ecological limit and, later, b…
Phosphorus: Past and Future
In Phosphorus, Jim Elser (limnologist) and Phil Haygarth (soil scientist) provide an in-depth look at phosphorus-related barriers to sustainable agriculture. The main question they address is: How can societies continue to feed the planet's human inhabitants without increasing the quantity of phosphorus flowing into aquatic ecosystems or compromising the availability of the raw material from which the bulk of this nutrient is obtained? Elser and …
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