Becoming a Virgin Forest: From Remote Sensing to Erasing Environmental History
As virgin forests become carbon sinks and biodiversity hotspots, their coproduced history is consigned to oblivion.
As virgin forests become carbon sinks and biodiversity hotspots, their coproduced history is consigned to oblivion.
A collection on the environmental history of the Middle East that covers five broad themes: agriculture and pastoralism; water; nature and culture; marine environments, and environmental monitoring.
The history of the Swiss National Park is told for the first time in Creating Wilderness. The deliberate reinterpretation of the American idea of the national park, as implemented in Yellowstone, was innovative and radical, but its consequences were not limited to Switzerland. The Swiss park became the prime example of a “scientific national park,” thereby influencing the course of national parks worldwide.
Rivers need property rights so that humans can live with floods.
This volume explores the potential contribution memory studies can make to policymaking, in particular on conservation and disaster resilience.