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Welcome to the Arcadia Project

"Arcadia: Online Explorations in European Environmental History" offers encyclopedia-like illustrated articles on subjects relating to both nature and human society. Click on the list to the right to view the first articles for this collaborative project with the European Society for Environmental History. When viewing an Arcadia article, click on an image thumbnail to see its full view and rights information.

Hydropower production on the Möll river by Gertrud Haidvogl

After the collapse of the Austrian-Hungarian monarchy Austria was disconnected from its coal resources. Electricity production was focused on hydropower. The Möll is an example for the turn from local energy production to supranational electricity provision.
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The European Green Belt by Sonja Weinbuch

The European Green Belt is a pan-European project to protect the environment and consolidate peace along the former Iron Curtain throughout Europe.
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Taming the Danube by Severin Hohensinner

The history of the Danube regulation in the Austrian Machland during the 19th century shows the enormous efforts made to transform a dynamic river landscape into a navigable waterway and a stable floodplain that supports the various human demands.
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The Gran Paradiso National Park by Wilko von Hardenberg

From the nineteenth century onward the Piedmontese royal house contributed to the preservation of the Alpine ibex. As such, the Gran Paradiso, first as a hunting reserve and then as a national park, became the last Alpine refuge for this iconic animal.
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About the Arcadia Project

"Arcadia: Online Explorations in European Environmental History" is a collaboration of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society (RCC) and the European Society for Environmental History (ESEH). Arcadia is a new online environmental history resource with encyclopedia-like articles, images, and links about any site, event, person, organization, or species as it relates to both nature and human society. While initial contributions come from ESEH members and will focus on the field of European environmental history the project will eventually expand to include non-ESEH contributors and cover all world regions.

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Welcome to the Arcadia Project

Hydropower production on the Möll river by Gertrud Haidvogl

The European Green Belt by Sonja Weinbuch

Taming the Danube by Severin Hohensinner

The Gran Paradiso National Park by Wilko von Hardenberg

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