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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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"Spanish Wood Pasture: Origin and Durability of an Historical Wooded Landscape in Mediterranean Europe"
Clément, Vincent
01/02/2008
"'Loved to Death:' Coral Collecting in the Great Barrier Reef, Australia, 1770–1970"
Daley, Ben, and Peter Griggs
01/02/2008
"Empire, Environment and Religion: God and the Natural World in Nineteenth-Century New Zealand"
Beattie, James, and John Stenhouse
01/11/2007
"Most, the Town that Moved: Coal, Communists and the 'Gypsy Question' in Post-War Czechoslovakia"
Glassheim, Eagle
01/11/2007
"Engineering Miracles: Water Control, Conversion and the Creation of a Religious Landscape in the Medieval Ardennes"
Arnold, Ellen F.
01/11/2007
"Accepting Father Rhine? Technological Fixes, Vigilance, and Transnational Lobbies as 'European' Strategies of Dutch Municipal Water Supplies 1900–1975"
Disco, Cornelis
01/11/2007
"Deforestation and Sugar Cane Growing in Eastern Australia, 1860–1995"
Griggs, Peter
01/08/2007
"Bodies on the Beach: Domesticates and Disasters in the Spanish Philippines 1750–1898"
Bankoff, Greg
01/08/2007
"Poisonous Plants, Pastoral Knowledge and Perceptions of Environmental Change in South Africa, c. 1880–1940"
Brown, Karen
01/08/2007
"Different Histories of Buchu: Euro-American Appropriation of San and Khoekhoe Knowledge of Buchu Plants"
Low, Christopher H.
01/08/2007
"Water Dreams, Earthen Histories: Exploring Urban Environmental History at the Penrith Lakes Scheme and Castlereagh, Sydney"
Karskens, Grace
01/05/2007
"Subterranean Bodies: Mining the Large Lakes of North-west Canada, 1921–1960"
Piper, Liza
01/05/2007
"Out of the Woods and into the Lab: Exploring the Strange Marriage of American Woodcraft and Soviet Ecology in Czech Environmentalism"
Jehlicka, Petr, and Joe Smith
01/05/2007
"Using Oral History and Forest Management Plans to Reconstruct Traditional Non-Timber Forest Uses in the Swiss Rhone Valley (Valais) Since the Late Nineteenth Century"
Gimmi, Urs, and Matthias Buergi
01/05/2007
"Enclosing the River: Industrialisation and the 'Property Rights' Discourse in the Liri Valley (South of Italy), 1806–1916"
Barca, Stefania
01/02/2007