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The interdisciplinary academic journal Environment and History is published by the White Horse Press. Its intention is to to bring scholars in the humanities and biological sciences closer together, with the aim of constructing long and well-founded perspectives on present day environmental problems. (Text adapted from the journal’s homepage).

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"Conservation, Control and Ecological Change: The Politics and Ecology of Colonial Conservation in Shurugwi, Zimbabwe"
McGregor, JoAnn
01/10/1995
"'Water Used to be Scattered in the Landscape': Local Understandings of Soil Erosion and Land Use Planning in Southern Zimbabwe"
Wilson, K. B.
01/10/1995
"Local Environmental Conservation Strategies: Karanga Religion, Politics and Environmental Control"
Mukamuri, B. B.
01/10/1995
"Water as a Weapon: The History of Water Supply Development in Nkayi District, Zimbabwe"
Cleaver, Frances
01/10/1995
"Conflicts over Development and Environmental Values: The International Ivory Trade in Zimbabwe's Historical Context"
Hill, Kevin A.
01/10/1995
"'Penetrating' Foreign Lands: Contestations Over African Landscapes. A Case Study from Eastern Zimbabwe"
Schmidt, Heike
01/10/1995
"Editorial" for Environment and History 2, no. 1 (Feb., 1996)
Myllyntaus, Timo, and Mikko Saikku
01/02/1996
"The Two Cultures Revisited: Environmental History and the Environmental Sciences"
Worster, Donald
01/02/1996
“Environmental History and the Construction of Nature and Landscape: The Case of the 'Landscaping' of the Jutland heath”
Olwig, Kenneth R.
01/02/1996
"From Resource Scarcity to Pollution Problem: The Production and Environmental Impact of a Swedish Alum Works, 1723–1877"
Sviden, John, and Mats Eklund
01/02/1996
"Down by the Riverside: The Disappearing Bottomland Hardwood Forest of Southeastern North America"
Saikku, Mikko
01/02/1996
"Ghosts of the Past: Where does Environmental History Begin?"
Main, A. R.
01/02/1996
"Tar Production in Colonial North America"
Airaksinen, Mikko
01/02/1996
"Wood and Forestry in German History: In Quest of an Environmental Approach"
Radkau, Joachim
01/02/1996
"The Politics of Fire and Forest Regeneration in Colonial Bengal"
Sivaramakrishnan, K.
01/06/1996