Thomas Robertson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3630104 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Robertson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Robertson |
| SIGNATURE | ROBERTSON T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Worcester Polytechnic Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6152-5511 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1951 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Environmental Justice in Nepal
This edited volume provides a holistic compilation of the diverse range of emerging scholarship in critical environmental justice studies in Nepal. This book brings together environmental justice scholarship set within a robust conceptual framework, focusing on a diversity of case studies from Nepal. Its locale-specific contextualization provides a unique analysis of the natural resource-based livelihoods common in the region, together with the h…
A World of Populations
Demographic study and the idea of a “population” was developed and modified over the course of the twentieth century, mirroring the political, social, and cultural situations and aspirations of different societies. This growing field adapted itself to specific policy concerns and was therefore never apolitical, despite the protestations of practitioners that demography was “natural.” Demographics were transformed into public policies that shaped …
Nature at War
This anthology is the first sustained examination of American involvement in World War II through an environmental lens. World War II was a total and global war that involved the extraction, processing, and use of vast quantities of natural resources. The wartime military-industrial complex, the 'Arsenal of Democracy,' experienced tremendous economic growth and technological development, employing resources at a higher intensity than ever before.…
Nature at War
A War of Mobility
World War II was a global war. It was a war of transport, mobility, and speed, fought in the far corners of the planet, across four continents and four oceans. It was also a gross national product war, fought with huge armies equipped with the fruits of modern industry – guns, artillery, tanks, trucks, airplanes, and thousands of other tools and supplies. To fight a war of men and material simultaneously on opposite sides of the earth, the United…
Locally managed marine areas
Marine protected areas (MPAs) are a widely used marine conservation tool designed to preserve marine biodiversity and improve fisheries management. Although the environmental benefits of MPAs are well established, evaluating the social and economic impacts of MPAs is challenging. In this paper we quantitatively identify the economic and social differences between communities based on whether or not the community has a tabu area in their local fis…
An Ethnography of Entanglements
This paper describes a ‘follow the thing’ methodology as applied to an ethnography of entanglements. This methodology allowed for a materially and politically nuanced understanding of Antioquia, Colombia’s response to mercury pollution. This pollution primarily originates from the Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining (ASGM) industry where mercury is employed in the gold extraction process. In following the mercury, the authors experiment with an…
New Perspectives on Malthus
Cold War landscapes
This essay examines the environmental history of US development programs during the early Cold War. The first part of the essay revisits Point Four programs, arguing that resource development was an essential, but now frequently overlooked component. The rest of the article reviews several recent scholarly works about development to examine changes in three crucial parts of the global environment: river systems, agriculture, and human health. The…
The Bird's-Eye View
Nation-States and the Global Environment
Journal Article Nation-States and the Global Environment: New Approaches to International Environmental History Get access Erika Marie Bsumek, David Kinkela, and Mark Atwood Lawrence. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. xiv, 303 pp. Cloth, $99.00. Paper, $24.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 2, September 2014, Pages 661–662, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jau384 Published: 01 September 2014
The Malthusian Moment
Total War and the Total Environment
This article uses Fairfield Osborn's Our Plundered Planet and William Vogt's Road to Survival to examine the environmental history of two crucial developments in twentieth-century US history: the emergence of a new political economic order in the 1930s and America's emergence as a global superpower during and immediately after World War II. Revisiting the origins of Osborn and Vogt's bestsellers adds an international dimension to our understandin…
This Is the American Earth”
Journal Article “This Is the American Earth”: American Empire, the Cold War, and American Environmentalism Get access Thomas Robertson Thomas Robertson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 32, Issue 4, September 2008, Pages 561–584, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7709.2008.00713.x Published: 18 August 2008
Questions of Seeing
Questions of Seeing":Images and the Culture of Environmental Reform Thomas Robertson (bio) Natural Visions: The Power of Images in American Environmental Reform. By Finis Dunaway. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. 246 pages. $37.00 (cloth). American reformers have often used visual images to spotlight their causes, sometimes with tremendous effect. Think of Lewis Hine's images of children in textile mills and Jacob Riis's pictures of cr…
Three excavations in medieval Dumbarton
This report describes the results of three archaeological excavations which took place within the medieval burgh of Dumbarton, two by Eric Talbot between 1971 and 1972 on the High Street and at College Street and the third, on the High Street, by SUAT in 1997. Evidence of medieval activity, including metal working, was found on burgage plots in the High Street. A large pottery assemblage provided an important opportunity to investigate medieval t…
Human Ecology
Total War and the Total Environment
This article uses Fairfield Osborn's Our Plundered Planet and William Vogt's Road to Survival to examine the environmental history of two crucial developments in twentieth-century US history: the emergence of a new political economic order in the 1930s and America's emergence as a global superpower during and immediately after World War II. Revisiting the origins of Osborn and Vogt's bestsellers adds an international dimension to our understandin…
Cold War landscapes
This essay examines the environmental history of US development programs during the early Cold War. The first part of the essay revisits Point Four programs, arguing that resource development was an essential, but now frequently overlooked component. The rest of the article reviews several recent scholarly works about development to examine changes in three crucial parts of the global environment: river systems, agriculture, and human health. The…
An Ethnography of Entanglements
This paper describes a ‘follow the thing’ methodology as applied to an ethnography of entanglements. This methodology allowed for a materially and politically nuanced understanding of Antioquia, Colombia’s response to mercury pollution. This pollution primarily originates from the Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining (ASGM) industry where mercury is employed in the gold extraction process. In following the mercury, the authors experiment with an…
Human Ecology
Three excavations in medieval Dumbarton
This report describes the results of three archaeological excavations which took place within the medieval burgh of Dumbarton, two by Eric Talbot between 1971 and 1972 on the High Street and at College Street and the third, on the High Street, by SUAT in 1997. Evidence of medieval activity, including metal working, was found on burgage plots in the High Street. A large pottery assemblage provided an important opportunity to investigate medieval t…
Questions of Seeing
Questions of Seeing":Images and the Culture of Environmental Reform Thomas Robertson (bio) Natural Visions: The Power of Images in American Environmental Reform. By Finis Dunaway. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. 246 pages. $37.00 (cloth). American reformers have often used visual images to spotlight their causes, sometimes with tremendous effect. Think of Lewis Hine's images of children in textile mills and Jacob Riis's pictures of cr…
This Is the American Earth”
Journal Article “This Is the American Earth”: American Empire, the Cold War, and American Environmentalism Get access Thomas Robertson Thomas Robertson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 32, Issue 4, September 2008, Pages 561–584, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7709.2008.00713.x Published: 18 August 2008
The Malthusian Moment
Total War and the Total Environment
This article uses Fairfield Osborn's Our Plundered Planet and William Vogt's Road to Survival to examine the environmental history of two crucial developments in twentieth-century US history: the emergence of a new political economic order in the 1930s and America's emergence as a global superpower during and immediately after World War II. Revisiting the origins of Osborn and Vogt's bestsellers adds an international dimension to our understandin…
The Bird's-Eye View
Nation-States and the Global Environment
Journal Article Nation-States and the Global Environment: New Approaches to International Environmental History Get access Erika Marie Bsumek, David Kinkela, and Mark Atwood Lawrence. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. xiv, 303 pp. Cloth, $99.00. Paper, $24.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 2, September 2014, Pages 661–662, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jau384 Published: 01 September 2014
Cold War landscapes
This essay examines the environmental history of US development programs during the early Cold War. The first part of the essay revisits Point Four programs, arguing that resource development was an essential, but now frequently overlooked component. The rest of the article reviews several recent scholarly works about development to examine changes in three crucial parts of the global environment: river systems, agriculture, and human health. The…
New Perspectives on Malthus
An Ethnography of Entanglements
This paper describes a ‘follow the thing’ methodology as applied to an ethnography of entanglements. This methodology allowed for a materially and politically nuanced understanding of Antioquia, Colombia’s response to mercury pollution. This pollution primarily originates from the Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining (ASGM) industry where mercury is employed in the gold extraction process. In following the mercury, the authors experiment with an…
Nature at War
This anthology is the first sustained examination of American involvement in World War II through an environmental lens. World War II was a total and global war that involved the extraction, processing, and use of vast quantities of natural resources. The wartime military-industrial complex, the 'Arsenal of Democracy,' experienced tremendous economic growth and technological development, employing resources at a higher intensity than ever before.…
Nature at War
A War of Mobility
World War II was a global war. It was a war of transport, mobility, and speed, fought in the far corners of the planet, across four continents and four oceans. It was also a gross national product war, fought with huge armies equipped with the fruits of modern industry – guns, artillery, tanks, trucks, airplanes, and thousands of other tools and supplies. To fight a war of men and material simultaneously on opposite sides of the earth, the United…
Locally managed marine areas
Marine protected areas (MPAs) are a widely used marine conservation tool designed to preserve marine biodiversity and improve fisheries management. Although the environmental benefits of MPAs are well established, evaluating the social and economic impacts of MPAs is challenging. In this paper we quantitatively identify the economic and social differences between communities based on whether or not the community has a tabu area in their local fis…
A World of Populations
Demographic study and the idea of a “population” was developed and modified over the course of the twentieth century, mirroring the political, social, and cultural situations and aspirations of different societies. This growing field adapted itself to specific policy concerns and was therefore never apolitical, despite the protestations of practitioners that demography was “natural.” Demographics were transformed into public policies that shaped …
Environmental Justice in Nepal
This edited volume provides a holistic compilation of the diverse range of emerging scholarship in critical environmental justice studies in Nepal. This book brings together environmental justice scholarship set within a robust conceptual framework, focusing on a diversity of case studies from Nepal. Its locale-specific contextualization provides a unique analysis of the natural resource-based livelihoods common in the region, together with the h…
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