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ESA launches new Journal
Ecosphere to provide online-only, open-access, rapid publication and cover wide range of topics

On August 3, during its 95th Annual Meeting, the Ecological Society of America will officially launch its newest journal, Ecosphere.  Welcoming submissions from all sub-disciplines of ecological science, Ecosphere will provide a rapid-publication, online-only, open-access alternative to the Society’s existing journals, while maintaining the rigorous peer-review standards for which printed ESA journals are renowned.

“The Society is very excited about the potential for Ecosphere,” said ESA President Mary Power.  “It will feature research on all sub-disciplines of ecology and detailed studies of ecosystems and species, and will also publish collaborative research melding ecology with economics, history, philosophy, education, policy, and other branches of knowledge.”

In addition to expanding the breadth and depth of papers published by ESA, a key goal for Ecosphere is rapid publication, with decisions on submissions made within 4-6 weeks of submission and papers published in a matter of days.  Papers will not be copyedited—authors will bear this responsibility.  All papers will be open-access—fully available to any interested online readers—and from the outset will be assigned DOIs.  Since the journal will have no subscriptions, authors who are ESA members will pay a one-time fee of $1250 in lieu of page charges (non-members will pay $1500).  The journal will feature color figures, graphs, charts and photographs. 

“It’s been seven years since ESA launched its journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment,” said ESA Executive Director Katherine McCarter.  “We believe the time is right to add to the Society’s excellent portfolio of journals and are optimistic that Ecosphere will offer the scientific community an additional excellent vehicle to convey critical research to a larger readership.” 

Until an Editor-in-Chief is chosen, Ecology EIC Don Strong will serve as interim EIC, with assistance from Ecology Co-Editors Aaron Ellison and Joe Yavitt. 

The Society encourages graduate students and postdoctoral researchers to volunteer their services as reviewers for Ecosphere papers.

ESA members attending the Pittsburgh Annual Meeting can learn more about Ecosphere by coming to the brown bag lunch highlighting the new online journal on August 3, 2010 from 11:30 AM – 1:15 PM, 305, David Lawrence Convention Center.  After the August 3rd launch, additional information about the new journal will be available on the ESA website.

The Ecological Society of America is the country's primary professional organization of ecologists, representing 10,000 scientists in the United States and around the world.  Since its founding in 1915, ESA has pursued the responsible application of ecological principles to the solution of environmental problems through ESA reports, journals, research, and expert testimony to Congress.  For more information about the Society and its activities, visit the ESA website at http://www.esa.org.

Reprinted from the ESA Connection July 23, 2010.

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Posted 7/26/10

BES Project Director Interviewed for Biohabitats

Biohabitats is a national firm that does ecological design and restoration.  Their Leaf Litter newsletter recently featured the Baltimore Ecosystem Study LTER.  Reporter Amy Nelson asked Steward Pickett about BES and the nature of long-term ecological research.  Reasons why Baltimore was a suitable site, the multi-institutional partnerships, the nature of integrated research, and the policy relevance of BES findings were among the issues covered.  The challenges and benefits of urban research were also covered.  Following is a link to the interview in its entirety.

http://www.biohabitats.com/ndg_newsite/newsletter/2010spring/interview.php

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Posted 3/29/10, Updated 4/29/10

New Weekly "Green & Sustainable" E-Zine
Published by The Urbanite Magazine

Environmental writer Heather Dewar is doing a new kind of environmental journalism.  She is editing a weekly E-Zine for The Urbanite magazine. The first one went out on Monday, July 5. You can sign up to receive the E-Zines by email.  Go to The Urbanite's website: http://www.urbanitebaltimore.com/baltimore/Home

There is a signup form in the middle of the page.  Just enter your email address and check off Green/Sustainable E-Zine.  Every Monday you will receive the weekly E-Zine.

Check out Heather's Monday, July 12 article, "Tree Town." She talks with BES Co-PI David Nowak of the USDA Forest Service about Baltimore's urban forest and potential effects of budget cuts. Here's the link:

http://www.urbanitebaltimore.com/baltimore/tree-town/Content?oid=1277010

Most of the E-Zine stories will also be posted on the website's Green/Sustainable page. Some stories will be on other pages. If you want to see all the E-Zine content, it's best to sign up for the email. There won't be a print version, though some stories will spin off into the print edition of the magazine.

This weekly E-Zine is an experiment in trying to reach people who are interested in the city, but not necessarily environmentalists.  Heather hopes to give them a fun, useful read that will get them thinking about their place in an ecological community, and considering the impacts of their choices on downstream ecosystems.  Heather also wants to give people who are working towards the same goals in different ways a chance to meet some kindred spirits and share ideas.

Urbanite wants to do good deeds too, but they also want to generate ads, which means the more subscribers, the better.  So please sign up if you're interested, and spread the word to friends and colleagues.  

If you have comments, criticisms or suggestions Heather would love to hear them. You can help make the zine better.  And if you've got story ideas, great reading to pass along or events to publicize, please let Heather know.  Her contact information is:

Heather Dewar
environment writer
hdewar@earthlink.net

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Posted 7/8/10

BES LTER study mention on As It Happens.

The NPR broadcast of the Canadian Broadcasting Centre (CBC) show As It Happens on 4 March 2010 contained a segment about a planned lawsuit against Quan Ha of Orange County California.  Mr. Ha had been fined for taking out his lawn and replacing it with drought-resistant plants—even though removing his lawn saved him almost a million litres of water.  Mr. Ha was interviewed on As It Happens on 2 March 2010.  Following media coverage of his story and subsequent publicity, authorities dropped the lawsuit.

In the 4 March broadcast, Barbara Budd and Carol Off interviewed Paul Robbins, head of the Geography Department at the University of Arizona, and author of the book, “Lawn People: How Grasses, Weeds and Chemicals Make Us Who We Are.” 

Here are some highlights from the interview. 

Many county and local municipalities as well as homeowner associations in the US have regulations about lawns, many of which require certain percentages of lawn cover.  These regulations tend not to be enforced unless someone complains—like neighbors.

Paul mentioned that there is a strong case for having green cover in the urban landscape as it lowers the urban heat island effect.  Although green space is good, he said that acres and acres of monocultural chemical saturated turfgrass is water, chemically and socially demanding.

Discussing the consequences of the effects on landscape and water systems Paul said that lots of energy goes into the system including: pesticides, fertilizers and water.  The ecological costs of these inputs are extremely high.

On the output side: what goes in, comes out.  Paul said that the Baltimore Long Term Study site, a really good urban case, has long examined how fertilizers flow out of the city; off lawns, down streets, then out into the bay, estuaries and ocean.  This creates algal blooms—biological oxygen deprivation which can kill whole equatic ecosystems through over fertilization. 

Paul also mentioned the negative health effects of these chemical cocktails which gathers in house dust brought in on clothing and shoes ending up on carpets and surfaces.

Paul has become more optimistic since his articles and book were published and resulted in a deluge of emails from activitist groups.  He says there is a leading edge opportunity.  If people can think differently about their lawns then they can think differently about everything—such as commuting time, walking and biking.  When people take ecology home and think about the lawn as a place that we can really reform, it can change the whole way a city operates. 

Here is the link to the complete broadcast (scroll to 13:50 minutes into the broadcast for the beginning of the story).  http://www.cbc.ca/mrl3/8752/asithappens/aihstreaming_20100304_02.wma

Robbins, Paul. Interview with Barbara Budd and Carol Off. As It Happens. CBC, 4 March 2010.
Robbins, Paul. 2007. Lawn people: how grasses, weeds, and chemicals make us who we are. 208 pp. Temple University Press, Philadelphia.

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Posted 3/10/10

"Conquering the Concrete"

Dan Rather created an investigative report piece called "Conquering the Concrete" last year.  This piece is a special report on the effects of impervious surfaces and drew examples from Baltimore to Seattle to California to Mexico.  Rather visited Baltimore to link what was happening with impervious surfaces in the watershed with what was happening downstream in waterways. UMCES arranged the interview with BES Co-PI Sujay Kaushal and provided a research vessel for traveling around Baltimore Harbor and Chesapeake Bay.  Part of the interview also took place in a BES watershed upstream. 

An excerpt from the broadcast, “Good evening.  We begin our broadcast tonight talking about impervious surfaces.  It that sounds like it's a bizarre medical condition, it's not. In fact you come face to face with impervious surfaces every day.  Simply put impervious surfaces are roads, rooftops and sidewalks—basically anything rainwater cannot penetrate.  Of course, all the above is what makes America go.  But as we drive down our paved roads to park in our asphalt covered parking lots, we should consider this; the convenience that all these surfaces afford us comes at a price; pollution.”

The full transcript is available at:
http://www.hd.net/transcript.html?air_master_id=A6404&pd=danrather

It originally aired on Tuesday, September 1st, 2nd, and 4th and is also now available on I-tunes on episode 338:  http://www.hd.net/danrather_epguide.html?page=2

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Posted 12/1/09

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M.  Gordon (Reds) Wolman
16 August 1924 - 24 February 2010

The members of the Baltimore Ecosystem Study (BES), Long-Term Ecological Research community were saddened to learn of the death of Reds Wolman at age 85.  A member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and of the National Academy of Engineering, his contributions ranged from ground breaking discoveries about the formation and dynamics of river channels, to convincing data about human contributions to stream sediment loads that threatened the Chesapeake Bay, to leadership of national interdisciplinary committees dealing with population and land change policy, to service on state environmental advisory boards; most recently including the Maryland Governor’s Advisory Committee on the Management and Protection of the State’s Water Resources. 

Reds was an important role model and contributor during the early phases of BES.  He had long been a champion of interdisciplinary studies at that point.  So his philosophy and experience were important for us.  There are some particulars too.  For instance, he is the one who was responsible for our group establishing the “Baltimore Rules” for conducting our meetings, which helped set our collaborative trajectory.  He weighed in on our initial plans for watershed based research, which has become one of the core pursuits of BES.  In fact, one of our stream sampling locations, Pond Branch, continues at a site he established in the 1960s. 

Not only was Reds a scientist who changed disciplines and ensured sound application of science in the policy sphere, he was a true gentleman and genuinely nice person.  An example of my personal benefit from his professional kindness was as a contributor to a National Research Council Committee he chaired on population and land use change.  He was very welcoming of my disciplinary perspective, which was quite different from the predominant flavor of the committee.  Yet he made sure that the thoughts of a fledgling urban ecologist were heard.  The second example is of a more personal sort.  I was part of a conversation once where he mentioned that he always offered the visiting friends of his children a tour of Baltimore.  He said he had three levels of tour: A, B, and C, with A being the grand tour.  I was bold enough, and sure enough of Reds’ kindness, to ask if he would consider giving me a grand tour.  He eagerly agreed.  So, on a wiltingly humid June morning Reds rolled up in is old compact car, wearing a crisp seersucker jacket and one of his signature bow ties, to shepherd two BES scientists all over his beloved Baltimore.  He showed us all sides of the city, introducing us to grand Victorian halls, driving down side streets to explain the changing role of the docklands, pointing out key sites in the history of racial and ethnic segregation, and sharing a stand-up crabcake lunch at Lexington Market.  At every spot, he showed copies of old photographs and maps to make the history he knew so well come alive to newcomers to Baltimore.

To the well deserved description of gentleman and scholar, I would add ambassador and mentor.  He is missed. 
-- Steward T.A. Pickett, BES Project Director

“Reds was a faculty member at Johns Hopkins from 1958-2010 and he served for more than three decades as chair, first of the Isaiah Bowman Department of Geography and then of the merged Department of Geography & Environmental Engineering, an interdisciplinary program that was ahead of its time, serving as home to engineers, human geographers, geomorphologists, ecologists, soil scientists, systems analysts, resource economists, and transportation planners, among others.  Although most famous for his work in fluvial geomorphology, Reds had an abiding interest in all aspects of water resources and environmental policy, as evidenced by his 1971 Science paper on water quality and population growth, “The Nation’s Rivers.”  Generations of graduate students and colleagues have benefited from his guidance and his friendly advice.  His academic legacy has had a profound influence at dozens of universities, federal and state agencies, and NGOs across the United States and around the world.” 
-- Andy Miller, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Reds with Grace Brush at her Mathias medal ceremony.

“None of us here realizes yet that Reds is gone.  I keep looking down the hall to see if his door is open - ready to share some bit of news or thought -- and then realize he is not there -- will not be there.”  
-- Grace Brush, Johns Hopkins 

Photo by Mary Cadenasso

“Reds is certainly deserving of praise for his contributions to Baltimore and to the larger stream restoration field.  His pebble count method was one of the first practical methods I learned in my very first job out of grad school doing stream restoration work.  And his publications are some of the most referenced in that field.  I had the privilege of meeting him on several occasions as both a student in a short course in which he visited and most recently, last year at a local synagogue where he came and spoke to a congregation during their environmental symposium.” 
-- Bess Caplan, BES Education Coordinator

Further information on Reds life and work is found in several online obituaries:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/01/AR2010030103615.html
http://gazette.jhu.edu/2010/03/01/m-gordon-reds-wolman-85-international-expert-in-river-science-2/

There will be a memorial service and celebration of Reds’ life and career on Sunday, April 11:
http://eng.jhu.edu/wse/Reds_Wolman/memorial-service  There is a guest book as a part of this website for those wishing to share their remembrances of Reds.

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Posted 3/18/10

Featured Grad Student

Interviews of BES graduate students by our Grad Student Rep Tammy Newcomer, will be posted here on the BES News.

Featured Graduate Student - Spring 2010 - Paul Lilly, University of Vermont
 
Graduate status: PhD 5th year
 
Advisor: Dr. Jennifer Jenkins
 
Master's degree from: SUNY-ESF, Syracuse, NY
Research area: Cation exchange in northern hardwood forest soils
 
Bachelor’s degree from: Yale College, New Haven, CT
Major: Philosophy
 
Hometown: Milwaukee, WI

Questions
 
Tammy: How would you describe your field of study/research to a friend who is not in your graduate program?

 
Paul: I study lawns. How they grow, what they’re good for, what problems they cause. Lawns are a big part of urbanized areas in this country, and urban areas face a lot of ecological challenges. My hope is that by understanding how lawns function, we can figure out how to use them as a net positive on the landscape.
 

Lilly places bentonite slurry and sand in the hole before installing the lysimeter.

Photograph: Steve Raciti     

Tammy: What inspired you to go into this field of study?
 
Paul: As an undergrad, I spent two incredible summers working for grad students doing ecosystem ecology, one in Alaska and one in Iceland. They exposed me to the idea of ecological function, which really got my imagination going. I’d been doing some reading on urban planning, and as the two topics pinged around in my head, urban ecology just seemed like a natural direction to go.
 
Tammy: Why did you become involved with BES?
 
Paul: When I started looking into places where people were studying urban ecology, BES was one of the first programs I found, and the research sounded so exciting. When I started my MS in 2003, I was doing research on forest soils, but I was also working for Dave Nowak at the USFS Urban Forest Research station in Syracuse and keeping an eye on what was going on at BES. I was just finishing my MS when Dr. Jenkins advertised for a PhD student, and I jumped at the chance to work on a BES-related project.

Tammy: What do you most enjoy about being involved with BES?
 
Paul: Definitely the people! Everyone is kind of doing their own thing, but there’s still a nice sense of community and camaraderie. I’ve helped a bunch of other people out with their projects, and other people have helped me. It’s fun to see what other people are doing and get your hands dirty.
 
Tammy: What is your favorite stress-reduction activity?

Paul: Running. When I don’t run regularly, I get twitchy and sullen.
 
Tammy: Is there anything that you've had to "give up" as a graduate student?
 
Paul: I’ve always thought of myself as more of a country boy than a city boy. But moving from San Francisco to upstate NY for grad school make me realize there are definitely things about a city lifestyle (shows, concerts, nice clothes, good restaurants) that I enjoy. And many of them require a more substantial income than a grad student has. I can’t really complain, though - my girlfriend takes good care of me, so I’m not as deprived as many of my fellow students.
 
Tammy: What are your plans for after graduate school?
 
Paul: I’ve really enjoyed doing research, but I’m impatient – I want to take some of the ideas that have come out of BES research (my own and others’) and try to put them into practice. With that in mind, I’m looking into public- and private-sector urban environmental planning positions.

Tammy: Name at least one achievement you are proud of.
 
Paul: I did a thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail in 2001 before I decided to go back to grad school. My little brother hiked the first 700 miles with me – he was 12 at the time – and it was a cool way to get to know him better. My parents met me in Maine and my dad hiked the last few miles up Katahdin with me.
 
Tammy: Do you have any advice that you would give to a new BES graduate students?
 
Paul: Don’t hesitate to ask questions, to everyone – the PIs don’t bite. And make sure you get out and about in Baltimore. Our research is a lot more meaningful when you get to know the local ecosystem.
 

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Posted 5/6/10

Where's Jim Higgins and What's He Up To

We recently received an email from former Co-PI James Higgins.  He has taken a position with the USDA in Ames, Iowa.  Although his job is now primarily concerned with livestock diseases, he anticipates getting involved with wildlife / feral animal disease ecology.  As such, he will be continuing his affiliation with BES as a collaborator.  His new contact info:  Jim Higgins, USDA / APHIS / NVSL, Mycobacteria and Brucella Section, 1920 Dayton Ave., Ames, IA 50010.  James.A.Higgins@aphis.usda.gov

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Posted 3/18/10

Grad Student Tamara Newcomer Awarded
the EPA’s National Network for Environmental Management Studies (NNEMS) Fellowship

Congratulations to Tammy Newcomer!  Tammy was recently elected the BES Grad Student Representative.  She is a graduate student at the University of Maryland, Center for Environmental Science, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory.  Her advisor is BES Co-PI Sujay Kaushal who is also at UMCES-CBL. The title of Tammy’s project is,"Stream Restoration as an Approach for Managing Nitrogen Pollution in Urban Watersheds."

This fellowship is sponsored by the EPA’s Office of Research and Development, National Risk Management Research Laboratory, Ground Water and Ecosystems Restoration Division.  This Division conducts research and supplies technical assistance to provide the scientific basis to support development of strategies and technologies used to protect and restore ground water, surface water, and ecosystems affected by man-made and natural processes.

Project Overview: Bioreactive nitrogen is a non-point source pollutant that impairs ecosystem function and threatens human health. Urban streams transport heavy nitrogen loads to estuaries such as the Chesapeake Bay. Stream restoration may be a cost-effective way to reduce nitrogen in urban streams, yet despite the billions of dollars spent annually on restoring streams, little is known about the effectiveness of stream restoration as a best management practice (BMP) for nitrogen. The fellow working on this project will research and quantify the ecological benefits of stream restoration. The fellow will take a field-based research approach to assessing the efficacy of stream restoration as a BMP for nitrogen control in urban watersheds. The fellow will use state-of-the-art ecological methods, including isotope tracer techniques, to quantify biological and hydrological processes in surface water and ground water at streams throughout Baltimore, Maryland, before and after restoration to identify biogeochemical controls of microbial denitrification, a natural process occurring in ground water that removes bioreactive nitrogen by transformation to a biologically inactive gas form. Stream restoration that stabilizes stream banks, reconstructs stream meanders and riffle zones, and re-establishes riparian vegetation may increase nitrogen uptake via denitrification by reconnecting hydrology and increasing carbon availability to microbes. Identifying restoration techniques where high denitrification activity occurs provides insight into important nitrogen management tools. The fellow will also conduct cutting-edge research into the ecology of urban streams and the effects of ecosystem restoration. The end date for this project is flexible.

http://www.epa.gov/enviroed/NNEMS/2010308.html

An additional note from Tammy:

“I will be published for the first time ever as a co-author on a paper that is being accepted in Environmental Engineering and is titled "Opportunities and Challenges for Managing Nitrogen in Urban Storm Water"!

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Posted 4/15/10, Updated 5/24/10

Note: Please send an abstract or brief description of your BES-related articles to beyarh@caryinstitute.org for inclusion in the BES News.

Publishing Note:

The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences has just published an issue of their journal on “The Shape of the New American City.”  It is the November issue of the 2009 volume, which is 626.  There are a number of articles that would likely be of interest to many in BES.

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Posted 1-6-10

Brief Article About Chris Boone’s Paper

Check out the brief blurb in this week’s Conservation Magazine, in the This Week Conservation Science column.  Writer David Malakoff’s column is about Co-PI Chris Boone’s paper posted by Urban Ecosystems online in November 2009; and will appear in print in the September 2010 issue.

Link to magazine: conservationmagazine.com
Link to Malakoff’s article: http://www.conservationmagazine.org/2010/07/boomer-forest/
Link to Boone, et al paper: DOI: 10.1007/s11252-009-0118-7

Boone, C.G., M.L. Cadenasso, J.M. Grove, K. Schwarz, and G.L. Buckley. 2010. Landscape, vegetation characteristics, and group identity in an urban and suburban watershed: why the 60s matter. Urban Ecosystems. 13(3)255-271.

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Posted 7-22-10

BES Recognized in New Urban Ecology Textbook

Lisa Benton-Short and John Rennie Short (2008) have published a book in the Routledge series on Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City.  It is called Cities and Nature, and consists of three major sections: I. The Urban Environment in History, II Urban Environmental Issues, and III (Re)aligning Urban-Nature Relations.  Within this broad scope general issues of global trends and conditions of urbanization, the status of urban ecology, various forms of contamination and vulnerability, environmental justice, and sustainability are addressed.

Of particular interest to the BES community is the fact that the book uses insights from our work and frameworks, and notes the contribution of our Long-Term Ecological Research project to building contemporary urban ecological research.  Indeed, both BES and the Central Arizona Phoenix LTERs are described in a text box.  The linking of social and biophysical approaches is noted as one of our contributions, helping to balance the traditional bias of urban research primarily toward the social.

Posted 4-22-10

Wild Urban Plants of the Northeast: A Field Guide

This new field manual is a guide to 222 plants that grow in cities of the Northeastern U.S.  It highlights the plants of open lands, sidewalk cracks, roadsides, and abandoned yards.  Each entry lists common and Latin names, including synonyms.  It describes the life form, vegetative characteristics, flowers and fruit, as well as habitat requirements and ecological functions.  It goes on to catalog cultural significance, including medicinal and culinary uses.  Each entry indicates the place of origin of the species, and in some cases, similar species are noted.  The photographs that accompany each entry are excellent tools to help identify the plants, showing foliage, flowers, growth habit in the field, and other important features.  The range of the plants covered in the book includes Baltimore and Washington, DC, and is useful as far west as Detroit and as far north as southern Canada.  This book is a very useful tool for urban ecological studies.  In addition to the introduction to the characteristics of urban plants and habitats by the author, the book includes a Foreword by S.T.A. Pickett.

Del Tredici, Peter. 2010. Wild Urban Plants of the Northeast: A Field Guide. Cornell University Press, Ithaca. 392 pp.

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Posted 4-7-10

Dorceta Taylor is a professor at the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan and director of an institute studying the issue of environmental justice its modern context.  The book, published by Duke University Press in November of 2009, explores how the centuries-old connections between racism and the environment in American cities.

In its coverage of race, class and gender inequalities, the book includes a dimension missing from other academic books on environmental history.  Professor Taylor adds to current research on the subject by exploring the emergence of elite reformers, the framing of environmental problems and the responses to perceived breakdowns in social order.  By focusing specifically on cities, she offers important clues to understanding the evolution of American environmental activism.

"A look at how cities and environmental reformers responded to such problems has important lessons that could prove valuable in dealing with contemporary problems," Professor Taylor said.  "In particular, it shows how in the face of weak governance by city officials, activists stepped in to fill the void by spearheading initiatives and developing environmental policies that were eventually adopted."

Published by Duke University Press.

The first of two extensive books on conservation history and environmental justice, "The Environment and the People in American Cities" provides a sweeping and detailed examination of the evolution of American cities from Colonial New York and Boston to recent urban planning and labor reform efforts, outlining the rise of problems like overcrowding, pollution, poverty and epidemics and connecting them to systemic environmental racism and other forms of environmental inequities.

Above from the University of Michigan press release. Link to complete press release: http://meldi.snre.umich.edu/node/14094

Taylor, D.E. 2009. The Environment and the People in American Cities, 1600s-1900s: Disorder, Inequality, and Social Change. 640 pp. Duke University Press. Durham. NC.

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Posted: 7/29/10