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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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"Conflicts Over Water in 'The Little Drought Age' in Central Mexico"
Endfield, Georgina H., and Sara L. O'Hara
01/10/1997
"Confronting the Pitfalls of Current Environmental History: An Argument for an Organisational Approach"
Uekoetter, Frank
01/02/1998
"Conservation, Control and Ecological Change: The Politics and Ecology of Colonial Conservation in Shurugwi, Zimbabwe"
McGregor, JoAnn
01/10/1995
"Contestation over Resources: The Farmer-Miner Dispute in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1903–1939"
Musemwa, Muchaparara
01/02/2009
"Continuities in Environmental Narratives: The Case of Kabale, Uganda, 1930–2000"
Carswell, Grace
01/02/2003
"Control of Air Pollution in Manchester prior to the Public Health Act, 1875"
Bowler, Catherine, and Peter Brimblecombe
01/02/2000
"Did they Really Hate Trees? Attitudes of Farmers, Tourists and Naturalists towards Nature in the Rainforests of Eastern Australia"
Frost, Warwick
01/02/2002
"Deforestation and Sugar Cane Growing in Eastern Australia, 1860–1995"
Griggs, Peter
01/08/2007
"Deforestation in the Owambo Region, North Namibia, Since the 1850s"
Siiskonen, Harri
01/10/1996
"Deforestation, Forest Transitions, and Institutions for Sustainability in Southeastern Mexico, 1900–2000"
Barton Bray, David, and Peter Klepeis
01/05/2005
"Degrading Land: An Environmental History Perspective of the Cape Verde Islands"
Lindskog, Per A., and Benoit Delaite
01/10/1996
"Different Histories of Buchu: Euro-American Appropriation of San and Khoekhoe Knowledge of Buchu Plants"
Low, Christopher H.
01/08/2007
"Down by the Riverside: The Disappearing Bottomland Hardwood Forest of Southeastern North America"
Saikku, Mikko
01/02/1996
"Draining the Marshlands, Disciplining the Masses: The Linth Valley Hydro Engineering Scheme (1807–1823) and the Genesis of Swiss National Unity"
Speich, Daniel
01/11/2002
"Divine Punishment or Object of Research? The Resonance of Earthquakes, Floods, Epidemics and Famine in the Correspondence Network of Albrecht von Haller"
Stuber, Martin
01/05/2003