Environmental injustice affects all aspects of the built and natural environments in cities: water, soil, and air pollution; greenspace access and environmental service provision; and less traditionally “environmental” issues such as housing quality, traffic safety, and policing.

Jan 12, 2023 · xi, 277 p., [8] p. of plates : 25 cm Includes bibliographical references and index This comes of settling a country : European colonization and the market's arrival -- This wilderness becomes a fertile plain : engineering the Empire State -- We are still in Eden : romanticism, tourism, and the power of culture -- Tainted and unwholesome atmospheres : urban environments, government, and reform ...

Oct 17, 2024 · WE ACT was the first NYC movement to be run by people of color, differing from the white environmentalist movements mainstream media had publicized since 1960. The first Earth Day celebration (1970) in New York was used as the main example for environmental justice movements in history.

Aug 6, 2011 · David Stradling shows how New York’s varied landscape and abundant natural resources have played a fundamental role in shaping the state’s culture and economy.

David Stradling surveys the entire scope of New York State’s history and illuminates the role the natural environment played in the state’s political, social, and cultural history, from the time of the first Dutch settlement up to the present.

The history of environmental affairs in New York State is the story of how New Yorkers have used natural resources and how they struggle to use soil, timber, water, air, and wildlife in ways that do not do irreparable damage.

Sep 1, 2010 · Trained by the eminent environmental historian William Cronon, David Stradling understands his task to be the description and explanation of human-caused change over time. This means figuring out what changes have occurred—from Long Island Sound to Lake Erie—and then explaining how human activities and culture are behind those changes.

In his broad survey of the state’s environmental history since the colonial era, nature plays a role that is at once real and mythic. New York’s abundant natural resources--furs, forests, fisheries, fertile soils, fresh water, diverse landscapes--were from the outset the basis of the state’s wealth.

For these reasons, this volume on the modern city’s environmental history pays particular attention to the ways water and waste shape life in the estuary. The history of how the city classified and handled discarded materials represents infrastructures that …

As New York City (and Brooklyn) expanded in the nineteenth century, a variety of environmental tensions emerged in Jamaica Bay, a coastal waterbody bordering the current New York City boroughs (and coterminous state counties) of Brooklyn and Queens, as …