"The Environmental Footprint of War"
This article addresses the direct impacts of war on the physical landscape and why the magnitude of disturbance has increased significantly over the past century.
This article addresses the direct impacts of war on the physical landscape and why the magnitude of disturbance has increased significantly over the past century.
This paper traces the dynamic of a rapid transition from forest to grass on Banks Peninsula, South Island, New Zealand, from 1850 to 1900, as well as the subsequent partial transition back towards forest.
While modern penal institutions exist, putatively, to transform the people held within them into law-abiding citizens, it is not generally recognised that since the early twentieth century, Australian and New Zealand penal systems have also sought to transform ‘wastelands’ into ordered, productive landscapes.
While many saw the landscape transformation which followed the European settlement of New Zealand as firmly within the prevailing ‘doctrine of progress,’ this transformation was viewed with misgivings by others, who observed how deforestation led to erosion and floods, and advocated more prudent forest management.
An introduction to the seven papers in this issue of Environment and History. The papers are based on presentations to the seventh conference of the Australian Forest History Society, held early in 2007 in Christchurch, New Zealand.
This study examines the role of colonial foresters in introducing new socioeconomic arrangements that resulted in increased poverty among the Tonga, Shona, and Ndebele communities in the Gwai Forest Reserve of North-Western Matabeleland, Zimbabwe.
This article examines the long-term anthropogenic factors that have affected the Atlantic Coastal Forest.
The aim of the present study is to investigate changes in the channel morphology and land use of the lower part of the Dyje River floodplain as a result of river engineering works.
A summary of a document produced for the Ministerial Conference on the Protection of Forests in Europe.
Using Hui county as a case study, this paper reconstructs the history of forestry and the changing patterns of forest tenure rights in the northwestern province of Gansu in 1949–1998.