ecology 
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SOURCE: Black Perspectives
6/16/2020
Appalachian Hillsides as Black Ecologies: Housing, Memory, and The Sanctified Hill Disaster of 1972
by Jillean McCommons
The Sanctified Hill disaster exposed the vulnerability of Black people to climate events due to a combination of placement and neglect.
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2/24/19
What Can One Ecologist Teach Historians?
by John Gaudet
Ecology can help substantiate historical changes that might otherwise go unnoticed.
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7/15/18
India’s Cities Have an Ecological Crisis. A Historian Knows How They Got There.
by Harini Nagendra
It was during the colonial and post-colonial period when the people of India’s relationship with nature changed (for the worse).
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8-27-17
We’ve Come to Think of the Anthropocene as Bad
by Jan Kunnas
But we can make a good Anthropocene as well.
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8-29-14
Humanity’s Ecological History in the Grocery Aisle
by Ruth DeFries
In just two hundred thousand years, a blink compared to the 4.5 billion year history of our planet, we have become the only species whose members live mostly in cities and subsist from food produced by a minority.
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