Every person on the planet is entangled in a web of ecological relationships that link farms
and factories with human consumers. Our lives depend on these relationships--and are …

After World War II, the US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) began mass-producing
radioisotopes, sending out nearly 64,000 shipments of radioactive materials to scientists and …

This article explores how the concept of ecosystem ecologies, one of the most influential
models of systems thinking, was developed in relation to the radioactive aftermath of US …

Plant breeders have long sought technologies to extend human control over nature. Early in
the twentieth century, this led some to experiment with startlingly strange tools like x-ray …

This essay uses literatures and concepts from environmental history, the history of
technology, and disaster studies to analyze what took place at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear …

As the magnitude of human impacts on the ecological systems of the planet becomes
apparent, there is increased realization of the intimate connections between these systems …

When Arthur Tansley, then doyen of British plant ecology, called a unit composed of living
and non-living parts of nature an" ecosystem" in 1935, he was by no means the first to …

This article investigates the emergence of ecosystems as objects of study and concern. It
contends that the history of ecosystem science cannot be separated from the history of …

Since its origin nearly 60 years ago, how-ever, the ecosystem concept has had other
meanings, reflecting a variety of themes. 1 In its evolution, it has reflected not only ecologists' …

The widespread adoption of radioisotopes as tools in biomedical research and therapy
became one of the major consequences of the “physicists' war” for postwar life science …