Issue 2014/6

Beyond Doom and Gloom: An Exploration through Letters

Edited by Elin Kelsey

How can we best influence and enact a shift beyond “doom and gloom” when we talk about the environment? The letters in this Perspectives volume are responses to this dilemma. Through an exploration of new environmental narratives, this volume aims to stimulate readers to emotionally reflect on how we can embrace hope and resilience in our stories about the environment.
Issue 2014/5

Energy (and) Colonialism, Energy (In)Dependence: Africa, Europe, Greenland, North America

Edited by Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga and Helmuth Trischler

What does history tell us about energy transitions? What do energy transitions tell us about the history of colonialism? This volume of RCC Perspectives presents five histories of colonial projects that transformed potential energy sources in Africa, Europe, North America, and Greenland into mechanical energy for wealth production.
Issue 2014/4

Crossing Mountains: The Challenges of Doing Environmental History

Edited by Marcus Hall and Patrick Kupper

This issue of RCC Perspectives uses mountains as a common denominator around which to discuss overarching challenges of environmental history: challenges relating not only to mountain landscapes, but also to broader questions of sources, methods, cross-cultural research, project scale, and audience. Each author discusses some of their most intriguing discoveries, resulting in a brief and diverse collection of environmental history snapshots.
Issue 2014/3

Asian Environments: Connections across Borders, Landscapes, and Times

Edited by Ursula Münster, Shiho Satsuka, and Gunnel Cederlöf

This issue of RCC Perspectives offers insights into similarities and differences in the ways people in Asia have tried to master and control the often unpredictable and volatile environments of which they were part