Nature Unites: Peace and Conservation in the Former Death Zone – the European Green Belt
The European Green Belt is a pan-European project to protect the environment and consolidate peace along the former Iron Curtain throughout Europe.
The European Green Belt is a pan-European project to protect the environment and consolidate peace along the former Iron Curtain throughout Europe.
Matthew Kelly describes how national parks were a component of the social democratic transformation of post-war Britain, which quickly became a focus for anxiety about the rise of mass car ownership and agricultural intensification.
The history of Puckapunyal Military Training Area illustrates how war and the environment interact in sometimes unexpected ways.
This area attracted an exodus of youthful creative urban dwellers resettling the land with aims of self-sufficiency and communal living.
Beavers have been successfully reintroduced into Knapdale Forest, Scotland, an area where they went extinct over 400 years ago.
Environmental activism in the 1960s forced the Army Corps of Engineers to limit the open-water dumping of dredge spoils in the Great Lakes and create new “natural” areas along the shore.