City, Country, Empire: Landscapes in Environmental History
A collection of essays addressing the collaboration of human and natural forces in the creation of cities, the countryside, and empires.
A collection of essays addressing the collaboration of human and natural forces in the creation of cities, the countryside, and empires.
Garth Lenz has played a major part in the fight against Alberta Tar Sands Mining through his photojournalism.
This project examines the history and legacy of arsenic contamination at Giant Mine, a large gold mine located on the Ingraham Trail just outside of Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada.
Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE) is a Canadian-based confederation of researchers and educators who study nature and humans in Canada’s past.
In this article for a Special Section on “Inheriting the Ecological Legacies of Settler Colonialism,” Alexander R. D. Zahara and Myra J. Hird explore the ways in which western and Inuit cosmologies differentially inform particular relationships with the inhuman, and “trash animals” in particular. They compare vermin control practiced in Canada’s waste sites with the freedom of ravens to explore waste sites within Inuit communities, arguing that waste and wasting exist within a complex set of historically embedded and contemporaneously contested neo-colonial structures and processes.
From Waterton-Glacier International Park to the European Alps, and Lake Titicaca in Peru and Bolivia, the essays in Parks, Peace, and Partnership provide illustrative examples of the challenges and new solutions that are emerging around the world.