"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…
The introduction of histories of nature in the late eighteenth century posed the epistemological problem of how to bring the diversity of empirical laws into theoretical unity…
This paper analyses the arguments in favour of recycling put forth by agricultural chemists in the mid-nineteenth century.
This paper builds a history of the rise of ecological awareness of the Swan River in Perth, Western Australia through the cultural perceptions of fish-eating birds.
The authors propose and discuss four ‘intersections’ that have potential as loci of interdisciplinary engagement: mutual understanding; spatial scale and locale; time and change; and the environment and agency.
This paper explores some routes into the history of plant transfers, especially during the period of European imperialism.
Australia and New Zealand share a southern, settler society history, and cultural solidarity as British colonies and dominions. Their early unity as ‘Australasia’ is where this paper begins, focusing on the strong role of science in shaping environmental history and policy in both countries.
Bao wrote this paper with a view to improving understanding and co-operation between Chinese and international environmental history studies.
The High Coast in north-eastern Sweden has become a popular tourist site annually attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors from throughout the world. Its environment is not only considered pleasing from a recreational aspect, but also of extraordinary intrinsic value.
McQuaid advances the view that NASA consistently misread the importance of the most popular science-based political movement of the late twentieth century.