Dr. Rebecca Bond is with Hour of History to discuss the disappearing coast of Louisiana and the politics of environmental change. Dr. Bond received her PhD from Louisiana State University in 2016 with a focus on environmental history. You can reach her out to her on Twitter @rhbond_phd

Weekly Highlights:

Disappearing Louisiana

What government is doing to save the coast

Food and the coastline

"Natural Disasters"

Hurricane Katrina

BP Oil Spill - Deepwater Horizon

What you can do to help the Environment

Jobs and the coastline

Suggestions:

Steven - Amitav Ghosh - The Great Derangement

Rebecca - For some excellent writing on recent issues in environmental history: Environmental History Now also on Twitter @envhistnow 

Books Mentioned in the Podcast: 

Ted Steinberg, Acts of God: The Unnatural History of Natural Disaster in America

Craig E. Colten, An Unnatural Metropolis: Wresting New Orleans From Nature

Dr. Rebecca Bond's Top Five Environmental History Books (In no particular order):

Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside

Rachel Carson, Silent Spring

Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac

Thomas R. Wellock, Preserving the Nation: The Conservation and Environmental Movements 1870-2000

Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology and the Scientific Revolution

Dr. Rebecca Bond's Top Five Books on Louisiana, Coastal Erosion, and Katrina:

Mike Tidwell, Bayou Farewell: The Rich Life and Tragic Death of Louisiana's Cajun Coast

Jason P. Theriot, American Energy, Imperiled Coast

Christopher Morris, The Big Muddy: An Environmental History of the Mississippi and Its Peoples

Shirley Laska et. al, Catastrophe in the Making: The Engineering of Katrina and the Disasters of Tomorrow

John McQuaid and Mark Schleifstein, Path of Destruction: The Devastation of New Orleans and the Coming Age of Superstorms

 

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