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.
This special issue of Environment and History stems from a series of conference sessions that attempted to address the gap between environmental history and the history of ecology.
Histories of environmentalism in Australia often overlook the 1950s, an era when scientific ecology dominated environmental activism…
After some years of absence, I found myself again active in the Australian conservation movement. A forest was to be razed, not far from where this is being written, for a relatively small yield of saw-planks…
Sacred groves in the ancient Mediterranean are compared with surviving groves of South India, particularly Uttara Kannada, to evaluate the roles of these refugia in maintaining balance between human groups and the ecosystems of which they are part.
This article examines the influence of empire forestry on the environmental movement in the United States. It particularly examines the British Indian forestry exemplar, and traces its influence on environmental thinking in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
The emergence of native fauna as a theme in conservation is used to explore the changing relationship between nature and human culture in late nineteenth century and early to mid-twentieth century Australia.
The Conservation Society was the first environmental society in the UK. It was founded in 1966 in response to the then widely perceived global threat of over-population…
Based on a review of international conservation literature, three inter-related themes are explored: a) the emergence in the 1860–1910 period of new worldviews on the human-nature relationship in western culture; b) the emergence of new conservation values and the translation of these into public policy goals; and 3) the adoption of these policies by the Netherlands Indies government.
This article examines the complex history of the grey seal problem in Britain since 1914.