American Forests: Nature, Culture, and Politics
An edited collection investigating the history of forestry in the United States from the nineteenth century onward.
An edited collection investigating the history of forestry in the United States from the nineteenth century onward.
Sharon McKenzie Stevens views the contradictions and collaborations involved in the management of public land in southern Arizona through the lens of political rhetoric.
Euer Dorf soll schöner werden captures the transformation of Germany’s rural landscape through modernization between 1961 and 1979, through the inter-village contest, “Unser Dorf soll schöner werden” (“May our village become more beautiful”).
This book is an exploration of the environmental makings and contested historical trajectories of environmental change in Turkey.
A collection on the environmental history of the Middle East that covers five broad themes: agriculture and pastoralism; water; nature and culture; marine environments, and environmental monitoring.
This book draws on the diversity of papers on deserts and drylands presented at the first Oxford Interdisciplinary Deserts Conference in March 2010.
In this book, scholars and scientists from twelve disciplines write about the Anthropocene.
Chapters from Timothy J. Killeen’s book A Perfect Storm in the Amazon Wilderness.
This book examines how the unruly Mississippi River and its muddy delta shaped the people, culture, and governance of the region.