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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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"Sovereignty, Collective Ingenuity and Moral Economies: The Confluence of Transnational Trends, States and Local Strategies in the Pyrenees"
Vaccaro, Ismael
01/02/2007
"Historical Evidence for Climate Instability and Environmental Catastrophes in Northern Syria and the Jazira: The Chronicle of Michael the Syrian"
Widell, Magnus
01/02/2007
"For the 'Preservation of Friends' and the 'Destruction of Enemies:' Studying and Protecting Birds in Late Imperial Russia"
Bonhomme, Brian
01/02/2007
"Empires of Forestry: Professional Forestry and State Power in Southeast Asia, Part 2"
Vandergeest, Peter, and Nancy Lee Peluso
01/11/2006
"Mining the Reefs and Cays: Coral, Guano and Rock Phosphate Extraction in the Great Barrier Reef, Australia, 1844–1940"
Daley, Ben, and Peter Griggs
01/11/2006
"Interstate Water Pollution Problems and Elusive Federal Water Pollution Policy in the United States, 1900–1948"
Paavola, Jouni
01/11/2006
"'Forsaken Spot' to 'Classic Ground': Geological Heritage in Australia and the Recuperative Power of the Deep Past"
Douglas, Kirsty
01/08/2006
"'An Enemy of the Rabbit:' The Social Context of Acclimatisation of an Immigrant Killer"
Wells, Philippa K.
01/08/2006
"Rhododendron ponticum in Britain and Ireland: Social, Economic and Ecological Factors in its Successful Invasion"
Dehnen-Schmutz, Katharina, and Mark Williamson
01/08/2006
"Soil Erosion, Scientists and the Development of Conservation Tillage Techniques in the Queensland Sugar Industry, 1935–1995"
Griggs, Peter
01/08/2006
"Selling the Space Age: NASA and Earth's Environment, 1958–1990"
McQuaid, Kim
01/05/2006
"National Metabolism and Communications Technology Development in the United States, 1790–2000"
Tilley, David Rogers
01/05/2006
"The History (1620–2003) of Land Use, People and Livestock, and the Relationship to Present Plant Species Diversity in a Rural Landscape in Sweden"
Dahlström, Anna, Sara A.O. Cousins, and Ove Eriksson
01/05/2006
"A History of the Hima Conservation System"
Gari, Lutfallah
01/05/2006
"The Rivers Come: Colonial Flood Control and Knowledge Systems in the Indus Basin, 1840s–1930s"
Weil, Benjamin
01/02/2006