"Book Reviews"
Reviews of histories of: the forest landscape of Molise in Italy; Scottish woodland; the Columbia River, and of the Thames Embankment in Victorian London.
Reviews of histories of: the forest landscape of Molise in Italy; Scottish woodland; the Columbia River, and of the Thames Embankment in Victorian London.
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 frontier environmental history of Cossack settlers in the North Caucasus reveals some of the weaknesses of the Russian imperial mission.
This paper suggests an approach for using different types of data sources, and for bringing together understandings of ecosystem dynamics and of people’s interaction with the environment, and thereby achieving ‘closure’ in a highly contested terrain.
Stapledon’s suspicions of inductive science and reductionist economics, his concern with holism, ‘spiritual values’ and ‘the nature of things’ and his emphasis upon breadth of vision and the cultivation of the imagination was in stark contrast to many scientists of the day.
Deforestation of mountain slopes in Java began to be perceived as a problem around 1850. This led to the establishment of a colonial Forest Service and, from c. 1890 onwards, to the creation of protected forests.
This paper describes a regional case study of the history of forestry practices in the north-eastern part of the central plateau of Switzerland during the nineteenth century, based on an analysis of official documents connected with forestry.
Drawing on historical and environmental research, this essay examines long-term trends in the ways that mining affected labour and the environment in Latin America.
Reconstructing the environment of Lesotho in order to assess soil erosion at different time scales, highlights conflicting views about the initiation of accelerated erosion.
The Spanish Law of common lands reduction (1855) ordered the Forester Corps (Public Works Department) to prepare a survey of grazing lands, scrublands and woodlands to be sold and the ones to be retained…