About this collection

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).

The Environment & Society Portal offers a growing selection of representative articles from the journal.

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"'The grievous mistakes of the Vanikoro concession': The Vanikoro Kauri Timber Company, Solomon Islands, 1926–1964"
Bennett, Judith A. 		01/08/2000
"'The Land is Spoiled By Water': Cossack Colonisation in the North Caucasus"
Barrett, Thomas M. 		01/02/1999
"'Unswept stone, besmeer'd by sluttish time': Air Pollution and Building Stone Decay in Oxford, 1790–1960"
Viles, Heather 		01/10/1996
"'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
"'Welcome to the Atomic Park': American Nuclear Landscapes and the 'Unnaturally Natural'"
Wills, John 		01/11/2001
"'When The Well's Dry:' Water and the Promise of Sustainability in the American Southwest"
Jenkins, David 		01/11/2009
"'Wilderness' and the Multiple layers of Environmental Thought"
Haila, Yrjo 		01/06/1997
"Rhododendron ponticum in Britain and Ireland: Social, Economic and Ecological Factors in its Successful Invasion"
Dehnen-Schmutz, Katharina, and Mark Williamson 		01/08/2006
"A 'Sportsman's Paradise:' The Effects of Hunting on the Avifauna of the Gippsland Lakes"
Dow, Coral 		01/05/2008
"A Dense and Sickly Mist from Thousands of Bog Fires: An Attempt to Compare the Energy Consumption in Slash-and-Burn Cultivation and Burning Cultivation of Peatlands in Finland in 1820–1920"
Kunnas, Jan 		01/11/2005
"A History of the Hima Conservation System"
Gari, Lutfallah 		01/05/2006
"A Native American System of Wetland Agriculture in Different Ecosystems in the Ecuadorian Andes (15th–18th Centuries)"
Caillavet, Chantal 		01/08/2008
"A Soil Conservation Safari: Hugh Bennett's 1944 Visit to South Africa"
Dodson, Belinda 		01/02/2005
"Abruzzo National Park: Land of Dreams"
Sievert, James 		01/10/1999
"Accepting Father Rhine? Technological Fixes, Vigilance, and Transnational Lobbies as 'European' Strategies of Dutch Municipal Water Supplies 1900–1975"
Disco, Cornelis 		01/11/2007