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"Sub-Saharan Africa assesses both the positive and negative environmental effects of human activities, ranging from the impact of colonialism to the modern day problems of urbanization, globalization, and conservationism. Readers will learn how environmental factors have impacted historical events, such as the nineteenth century 'Scramble for Africa' and the ongoing tensions between conservationism and environmentalism. Sub-Saharan Africa is a presentation...
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Dan Jason is an organic gardener on Salt Spring Island of the Canadian west coast and the head of the Seed and Plant Sanctuary for Canada, a network of gardeners from around the world working to preserve as much plant diversity as possible. This film explores Dan's garden and seed world and investigates, with several sustainable development specialists, such issues as genetic engineering, terminator seeds, and the pitfalls of industrial agriculture...
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"How did the Civil War and the emancipation of the South's four million slaves reconfigure the natural landscape and the farming economy dependent upon it? An important reconsideration of the Civil War's role in southern history, Unredeemed Land uncovers the environmental constraints that shaped the rural South's transition to capitalism during the late nineteenth century. Dixie's 'King Cotton' required extensive land use techniques, fresh soil, and...