Review of The Fading of the Greens: The Decline of Environmental Politics in the West, by Anna Bramwell
Malcolm Chase reviews the sequel to Anna Bramwell’s Ecology in the 20th Century: A History.
Malcolm Chase reviews the sequel to Anna Bramwell’s Ecology in the 20th Century: A History.
This article presents some local understandings of ecological history in a semi-arid area of Zimbabwe as an exploration of how changes in land use that reflect both local initiative and state planning have transformed the hydrology of local catchments of heavy clay ‘mopani soils’ and greatly accelerated soil erosion.
This article argues that local religious institutions are used by ruling lineages for political control, to grant preferential access to particular resources, and to enhance political hegemony.
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.’
Ringbarking, as a means of destroying trees, was known and practised from the earliest years of British settlement in New South Wales…
Commercial agriculture in the dry interior of South Africa is heavily reliant upon irrigation water from the Orange River. Most of this vital water does not fall as rain on South African soil but as rain and snow in the mountains of Lesotho…
A case study of beach pollution illustrates economic and political influences that have shaped environmental policy in Britain.
The issues discussed provide an interface between ‘green history’ and frameworks for sustainable development. An overview of groundwater exploitation is presented with case studies of low flows, the nitrate issue and salinisation of chalk aquifers.
The influence of scientific forestry in southwestern Cameroon (today Southwest Province) is examined.