Review of Ein Recht auf saubere Luft? Umweltkonflikte am Beginn des Industriezeitalters, by Michael Stolberg
Stolberg examines the history of air pollution as a scientific, social and political issue from 1800 to 1860.
Stolberg examines the history of air pollution as a scientific, social and political issue from 1800 to 1860.
Coutinho’s analysis compares and contrasts claims put forward in the journal The Ecologist between 1970 and 1993, with those advanced in the report of the World Commission on Environment and Development published in book form under the title Our Common Future in 1987.
Commentary on the articles in this special issue of Environment and History, “Ecological Visionaries/Ecologised Visions.”
This paper attempts to show the ways in which the recurring image of an older landscape served as a powerful metaphor in Chotanagpur’s resurgence.
This paper examines argues that common property regimes in the Indian Himalayas historically provided only one of an interdependent set of production strategies.
While gender-blindness has characterised much writing on colonial environmental history, women have assumed center-stage in the historical narratives produced by two linked contemporary policy discourses: ecofeminism, and ‘women, environment and development.’
There is an urgency and a fracture to Australian environmental history…
Ringbarking, as a means of destroying trees, was known and practised from the earliest years of British settlement in New South Wales…
This paper examines age as a parameter in colonial and recent science. It then recounts attempts to impose an ordered progression of age classes on the forests of Victoria and Queensland according to the classical principles of forestry transmuted through an imperial model.
Histories of environmentalism in Australia often overlook the 1950s, an era when scientific ecology dominated environmental activism…