"Editorial: Letter from Canberra"
As the millennium approaches it seems that environmental historians are increasingly drawn to the task of writing world history…
As the millennium approaches it seems that environmental historians are increasingly drawn to the task of writing world history…
Why do we continue to talk about the debate over global warming as if it were a scientific controversy?
If climate change mitigation through political agreement has no hope of succeeding, does it make sense to tinker with the climate?
This book is a collection of papers from one of the first major US conferences on environmental history, which took place 1–3 January 1982 at the University of California’s Irvine campus, and brought together over 100 scholars active in the field.
This book seeks to explain what science and politics are in the context of environmental policymaking and how the interplay of science and politics influences international environmental policy.
Anya Zilberstein, Carson Fellow from February 2012 until July 2012, talks about her project on prison gardens, especially the work of Count Rumford (Benjamin Thompson), who designed Munich’s English Garden in the late eighteenth century.
This graphic book uses cartoon illustrations to present scientific facts alongside a broad range of actions that we can take against climate change.
A study of social vulnerability to climate in Switzerland and in the Czech Lands during the early 1770s.
Michael Toman discusses values, costs, and benefits in the economics of climate change, and sketches ways in which technical economic analyses could be integrated with public dialogue.
These essays showcase examples from Canada and Western Europe, offering insights into how different forms of environmental knowledge and environmental politics come to be seen as legitimate or illegitimate.