Review of Global Environmental History: 10,000 BC to AD 2000 by Ian Gordon Simmons
Economic historian Paolo Malanima reviews a work of ambitious scale by geographer Ian Gordon Simmons.
Economic historian Paolo Malanima reviews a work of ambitious scale by geographer Ian Gordon Simmons.
An interview with Joachim Radkau, professor of history at the University of Bielefeld in Germany and author of Nature and Power: A Global History of the Environment..
Using case studies from Austria and Kansas, this paper compares the socioecological structures of the agricultural communities immigrants left to those that they found and created on the other side of the Atlantic.
An overview of agricultural sustainability in the eastern Mediterranean Levantine Corridor (the western part of the Fertile Crescent).
The authors regard migration as a form of adaptation and argue that Irish migration in 1740–1741 should be considered as a case of climate-induced migration.
Mick Smith examines how a posthumanist notion of ecological community might attempt to address questions concerning extinction.
What does the possibility of an early end to human existence as part of a more general biotic extinction mean for the latter day writing of history?
This article examines the energy transition in the iron industry and studies the consequence of this switch to coal-fueling technology upon forests.
The present paper examines the chronic occurrence of famine in Manbhum, Bengal District, after the 1860s due to environmental degradation as a result of colonial intervention and an increase in commodity production and the expansion of monoculture.
This paper attempts to explore the historic impacts of forest politics and policy on social equity and ecology in Nepal’s Terai region. It is suggested that past forest politics and policies may continue to influence the forest bureaucracy in Nepal and, hence, shape present-day forest management in the Terai.