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.
Liza Piper talks about the industrialization of Canada’s northwest subarctic region between 1920 and 1960.
This article looks back in time to understand the relationship of Canada’s population to its territory.
This article looks at the history of national parks in North America, particularly in relation to the size of the Canadian territory.
Garth Lenz has played a major part in the fight against Alberta Tar Sands Mining through his photojournalism.
Of the many factors that shaped energy transitions in the twentieth century, the World Wars are rarely considered. Yet the dramatic effects of war mobilization on energy systems and the restructuring of supply lines through new geographies of military action and alliance suggest the importance of war as an external shock or crisis with the power to reshape the political economy of energy systems profoundly. Hydroelectricity in Canada during World War II provides one example of this process. The War consolidated and propelled a transition to hydroelectricity, yet the transition was not simple or linear.
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.
The Future of Food examines genetically engineered foods, patenting, and the corporatization of food.
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.