POPULAR ESSAYS and JOURNALISM
Nancy Langston, "Conservation policies threaten Indigenous reindeer herders in Mongolia," Sept. 2019, The Conversation, https://theconversation.com/conservation-policies-threaten-indigenous-reindeer-herders-in-mongolia-121729
Nancy Langston, "Twinkies, bug spray, and frisbees: Planning for successful field trips," NICHE, https://niche-canada.org/2019/05/09/field-trips/
Nancy Langston, "Closing Nuclear Plants will increase climate risks." Jan. 2019, NICHE: https://niche-canada.org/2019/01/30/closing-nuclear-plants-will-increase-climate-risks/
Nancy Langston, "Will woodland caribou survive in the Lake Superior basin?" Jan 2019, Agate Magazine, http://www.agatemag.com/2019/01/will-woodland-caribou-survive-in-the-lake-superior-basin/
Nancy Langston, "Are woodland caribou doomed by climate change?" July 2018, Historical Climatology, https://www.historicalclimatology.com/blog/are-woodland-caribou-doomed-by-climate-change
Nancy Langston, "The Syllabus Project" July 2018, NICHE https://niche-canada.org/2018/07/05/the-syllabus-project/
Nancy Langston, "The Wisconsin Experiment," Places Journal, 2017 https://placesjournal.org/article/the-wisconsin-experiment/
Nancy Langston, "In Oregon, myth mixes with anger," Op-ed Jan 2016 in the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/06/opinion/in-oregon-myth-mixes-with-anger.html
Nancy Langston, "The surprising history of the Malheur wildlife refuge," Jan 2016, High Country News, https://www.hcn.org/articles/the-surprising-history-of-the-malheur-wildlife-refuge
Nancy Langston, "Beyond the Oregon protests: search for a common ground," Jan 2016, e360: https://e360.yale.edu/features/beyond_the_oregon_protests_the_search_for_common_ground
Nancy Langston, "Twinkies, bug spray, and frisbees: Planning for successful field trips," NICHE, https://niche-canada.org/2019/05/09/field-trips/
Nancy Langston, "Closing Nuclear Plants will increase climate risks." Jan. 2019, NICHE: https://niche-canada.org/2019/01/30/closing-nuclear-plants-will-increase-climate-risks/
Nancy Langston, "Will woodland caribou survive in the Lake Superior basin?" Jan 2019, Agate Magazine, http://www.agatemag.com/2019/01/will-woodland-caribou-survive-in-the-lake-superior-basin/
Nancy Langston, "Are woodland caribou doomed by climate change?" July 2018, Historical Climatology, https://www.historicalclimatology.com/blog/are-woodland-caribou-doomed-by-climate-change
Nancy Langston, "The Syllabus Project" July 2018, NICHE https://niche-canada.org/2018/07/05/the-syllabus-project/
Nancy Langston, "The Wisconsin Experiment," Places Journal, 2017 https://placesjournal.org/article/the-wisconsin-experiment/
Nancy Langston, "In Oregon, myth mixes with anger," Op-ed Jan 2016 in the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/06/opinion/in-oregon-myth-mixes-with-anger.html
Nancy Langston, "The surprising history of the Malheur wildlife refuge," Jan 2016, High Country News, https://www.hcn.org/articles/the-surprising-history-of-the-malheur-wildlife-refuge
Nancy Langston, "Beyond the Oregon protests: search for a common ground," Jan 2016, e360: https://e360.yale.edu/features/beyond_the_oregon_protests_the_search_for_common_ground
PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES: Environmental History
Recent articles can be downloaded from Digital Commons at MTU (enter Nancy Langston into the search box: https://digitalcommons.mtu.edu/) or from my (rarely updated) Academic.edu page: http://mtu.academia.edu/NancyLangston
Langston, N. 2018. “Environment and sustainability in mining.” Chapter for Environment and Sustainability in a Globalizing World, Ed. A. Nightingale and T Bohler,
Langston, N. 2018. “Taconite and the Anishinabeg in the Lake Superior Basin.” Chapter for Mining North America, eds. G. Vrtis and J. McNeil, University of California Press,.
Langston, N. 2016. “Resiliency and Collapse: Lake Trout, Sea Lamprey, and Fisheries Management in Lake Superior.” In Lynne Heasley and Daniel Macfarlane, ed.s Border Flows: A Century of Canadian-American Water Relations, University of Calgary Press.
John Baeten, Nancy Langston, and Don Lafreniere. 2016. “A geospatial approach to uncovering the hidden waste footprint of Lake Superior’s Mesabi Iron Range.” The Extractive Industries and Society. Online publication Sept 2016, In print 2017, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2016.09.003
Langston, N. 2016. La convergence entre santé humaine et santé environnementale: le toxaphène dans le lac Supérieur, Sciences Sociales et Santé, 34: 103-123.
Mårald, E., N. Langston, J. Moen, and A. Stens. 2016. “Changing ideas in forestry: a comparison of concepts in Swedish and American forestry journals during the early 20th and 21st centuries.” Ambio 45 Suppl 2: 74-86.
Thistle, J. and N. Langston. 2016. “Entangled histories: Iron ore mining in Canada and the United States.” The Extractive Industries and Society 3(2): 269-277.
Steen-Adams, M. M., Langston, N., Adams, M.D., & Mladenoff, D. J. 2015. “Historical framework to explain long-term coupled human and natural system feedbacks: application to a multiple-ownership forest landscape in the northern Great Lakes region, USA.” Ecology and Society, 20(1): 28ff.
Langston, N. 2015. “Thinking Like A Microbe: Borders and Environmental History.” Canadian Historical Review. 95(4): 592-603.
Langston, N. 2014. “Precaution and the History of Endocrine Disruptors.” in Powerless Science? Science and Politics in a Toxic World, ed. S. Boudia and N Jas. New York: Berghahn Books. 29-45.
Langston, N. 2014. “New Chemical Bodies: Synthetic Chemicals, Regulation, and Health.” Chapter for Oxford Handbook of Environmental History, ed. Andrew Isenberg. 259-281.
Langston, N. 2014. "Environmental Historians in a Changing World: Evolution, Environmental Health, and Climate Change." Invited essay for Journal of Renmin University of China.
Langston, N. 2014. "Endocrine Disruptors in the Environment." In Daniel Kleinman, ed. Controversies in Science and Technology, vol 4. Oxford University Press. 153-165.
Langston, N. 2013. "Mining the Boreal North," American Scientist March/April 101:2-4.
Langston, N. 2018. “Environment and sustainability in mining.” Chapter for Environment and Sustainability in a Globalizing World, Ed. A. Nightingale and T Bohler,
Langston, N. 2018. “Taconite and the Anishinabeg in the Lake Superior Basin.” Chapter for Mining North America, eds. G. Vrtis and J. McNeil, University of California Press,.
Langston, N. 2016. “Resiliency and Collapse: Lake Trout, Sea Lamprey, and Fisheries Management in Lake Superior.” In Lynne Heasley and Daniel Macfarlane, ed.s Border Flows: A Century of Canadian-American Water Relations, University of Calgary Press.
John Baeten, Nancy Langston, and Don Lafreniere. 2016. “A geospatial approach to uncovering the hidden waste footprint of Lake Superior’s Mesabi Iron Range.” The Extractive Industries and Society. Online publication Sept 2016, In print 2017, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2016.09.003
Langston, N. 2016. La convergence entre santé humaine et santé environnementale: le toxaphène dans le lac Supérieur, Sciences Sociales et Santé, 34: 103-123.
Mårald, E., N. Langston, J. Moen, and A. Stens. 2016. “Changing ideas in forestry: a comparison of concepts in Swedish and American forestry journals during the early 20th and 21st centuries.” Ambio 45 Suppl 2: 74-86.
Thistle, J. and N. Langston. 2016. “Entangled histories: Iron ore mining in Canada and the United States.” The Extractive Industries and Society 3(2): 269-277.
Steen-Adams, M. M., Langston, N., Adams, M.D., & Mladenoff, D. J. 2015. “Historical framework to explain long-term coupled human and natural system feedbacks: application to a multiple-ownership forest landscape in the northern Great Lakes region, USA.” Ecology and Society, 20(1): 28ff.
Langston, N. 2015. “Thinking Like A Microbe: Borders and Environmental History.” Canadian Historical Review. 95(4): 592-603.
Langston, N. 2014. “Precaution and the History of Endocrine Disruptors.” in Powerless Science? Science and Politics in a Toxic World, ed. S. Boudia and N Jas. New York: Berghahn Books. 29-45.
Langston, N. 2014. “New Chemical Bodies: Synthetic Chemicals, Regulation, and Health.” Chapter for Oxford Handbook of Environmental History, ed. Andrew Isenberg. 259-281.
Langston, N. 2014. "Environmental Historians in a Changing World: Evolution, Environmental Health, and Climate Change." Invited essay for Journal of Renmin University of China.
Langston, N. 2014. "Endocrine Disruptors in the Environment." In Daniel Kleinman, ed. Controversies in Science and Technology, vol 4. Oxford University Press. 153-165.
Langston, N. 2013. "Mining the Boreal North," American Scientist March/April 101:2-4.
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Langston, N. 2012. "Rachel Carson’s legacy: gender concerns and endocrine disrupting chemicals." GAIA.
Langston, N. 2011. “Protecting our Bodies from Hormone-Disrupting Chemicals: A Precautionary Tale.” Solutions 1: Feb. 25.
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Steen-Adams, Michelle M., David J. Mladenoff, Nancy E. Langston, Feng Liu, and Jun Zhu. 2011. “Influence of Biophysical Factors and Differences in Ojibwe Reservation Versus Euro-American Social Histories on Forest Landscape Change in Northern Wisconsin, USA.” Landscape Ecology 26 (8) (August 21): 1165-1178.
Steen-Adams, M., N. Langston, and D. J. Mladenoff. 2010. “Logging the Great Lakes Indian Reservations: The Case of the Bad River Band of Ojibwe.” American Indian Culture and Research Journal 34: 41-66.
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Langston, N. 2010. "Toxic Inequities: Chemical Exposures and Indigenous Communities in Canada and the United States." Natural Resources Journal 50:2.
Langston, N. 2009. "Paradise Lost: Climate Change, Boreal Forests, and Environmental History." Environmental History 14: 641-650.
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Hoffman, R., N. Langston, J. McCann, P. Perdue, and L. Sedrez. 2008. “AHR Conversation: Environmental Historians and Environmental Crisis.” American Historical Review 113: 1431-1465.
Roberts, Jody A. and N. Langston. 2008. “Toxic Bodies/ Toxic Environments: An Interdisciplinary Forum.” Environmental History 13: 629-635.
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Langston, N. 2008. “The Retreat from Precaution: Regulating Diethylstilbestrol (DES), Endocrine Disruptors, and Environmental Health.” Environmental History 13: 41-65.
Steen-Adams, M. M, N. Langston, and D. J Mladenoff. 2007. “White Pine in the Northern Forests: An Ecological and Management History of White Pine on the Bad River Reservation of Wisconsin.” Environmental History 12 (3): 614–648.
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Langston, N. 2005. “Reflections on Teaching World Forest History.” Environmental History 10: 20-29.
Langston, N. 2000. "When Sound Science is Not Enough: Regulating the Blues." Journal of Forestry 98: 31-35.
Langston, N. 1999. "Environmental and Human Change in Old Growth Forests," Research in Social Problems and Public Policy 7: 253-271.
Langston, N. 1998. Environmental History and Restoration in the Western Forests. Journal of the West 38: 45-56. |
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PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES: ecology & evolution
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Langston, N., S. Rohwer, and D. Gori. 1997. Experimental Analysis Of Intra And Intersexual Competition In Red-Winged Blackbirds. Behavioral Ecology 8: 524-533.
Rohwer, S., N. Langston, and D. Gori. 1996. Body Size In Male Redwinged Blackbirds: Manipulating Selection With Sex-Specific Feeders. Evolution 50: 2049-2065.
Langston, N. and S. Rohwer. 1996. Molt/breeding Tradeoffs In Albatrosses: Implications For Understanding Life History Variables. Oikos 76: 498-510.
Langston, N. and S. Rohwer. 1995. Unusual Patterns of Incomplete Primary Molt in Laysan and Black-footed Albatrosses. Condor 97: 1-19.
Langston, N. and N. Hillgarth. 1995. The Extent Of Primary Molt Varies With Parasites In Laysan Albatrosses: A Possible Role In Life History Tradeoffs Between Current And Future Reproduction. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London (series B) 261: 239-243.
Langston, N., S. Freeman, D. Gori, and S. Rohwer. 1990. Evolution of Body Size in Female Redwinged Blackbirds: Effects of Female Competition and Reproductive Energetics. Evolution 44: 1764-1779.
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SELECTED BOOK CHAPTERS
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Langston, N. 2012. “Global forest change.” Chapter in J.R. McNeill and Erin Stewart Mauldin, eds., A Companion to Global Environmental History. Oxford University Press.
Langston, N. 2010. "Air: Climate Change and Environmental History." Pp 33-50 in A Companion to Environmental History, ed. Doug Sackman, Blackwell Companions to American History (New York: Wiley). Langston, N. 2006. “Restoration in the American National Forests: Ecological Processes and Cultural Landscapes.” Chapter in The Conservation of Cultural Landscapes, ed. Mauro Agnoletti. CABI Press. 173-183.
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Langston, N. 2005. "Resource Management as a Democratic Process: Adaptive Management on Federal Lands." Chapter in Communities and Forests: Where People Meet the Land. ed. Don Field and Robert Lee, Oregon State University Press. 52-76.
Langston, N. 2005. "Floods and Landscapes in the Inland West" Chapter in City, Country, Empire: Landscapes in Environmental History, ed. Jeffrey Diefendorf and Kurk Dorsey. U. of Pittsburgh Press. 99-121.
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Langston, N. 2003. "Gender Transformed: Endocrine Disruptors in the Environment." Chapter in Seeing Nature through Gender, ed. Virginia Scharff. U. of Kansas Press. 129-166.
Nancy Langston, 1998. "People and nature: understanding the changing interactions between people and ecological systems" pp. 25-76 in S. Dodson, T. Allen, S. Carpenter, A. Ives, R. Jeanne, J. Kitchell, N. Langston, and M. Turner. Ecology. Oxford University Press.
Langston, N. 1997. "Forest Dreams, Forest Nightmares: An Environmental History of a Forest Health Crisis." Chapter in American Forests: Nature, Culture, and Politics. Ed. Char Miller. U. Press of Kansas. 247-271.
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