Books and book chapters
Seismic City: An Environmental History of San Francisco’s 1906 Earthquake, Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books Series (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2017).
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“The War on Rats versus the Right to Keep Chickens: Plague and the Paving of San Francisco, 1907-1908,” in Andrew C. Isenberg, Ed., The Nature of Cities: Culture, Landscape and Urban Space (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2006): 38-61.
Articles
“Transience, Labor, and Nature: Itinerant Workers in the American West,” International Labor and Working-Class History, special issue Environment and Labor, 85 (Spring 2014): 97-117.
“Lessons from History: Coastal Cities and Natural Disaster,” Management of Environmental Quality 20, no. 4 (2009): 460-473.
Book reviews and short pieces
Book Review, Pests in the City: Flies, Bedbugs, Cockroaches, and Rats by Dawn Day Biehler, Journal of Interdisciplinary History XLV, no. 2 (2014): 246-247.
Book Review, Saving San Francisco: Relief and Recovery after the 1906 Disaster by Andrea Rees Davies, Journal of American Ethnic History 33, no. 3 (Spring 2014): 90-91.
Book Review, Weeds: An Environmental History of Metropolitan America by Zachary J. S. Falck, Journal of American History 99 (September 2012): 560.
Book Review, Seattle and the Roots of Urban Sustainability: Inventing Ecotopia by Jeffrey Craig Sanders, The Western Historical Quarterly 42, no. 4 (Winter 2011): 518-519.
“San Francisco, California,” in Kathleen A. Brosnan, Ed., Encyclopedia of American Environmental History, Facts on File, 2011: 1165-1167.