"Editorial" for Environment and History 4, no.2, Australia special issue (June, 1998)
There is an urgency and a fracture to Australian environmental history…
There is an urgency and a fracture to Australian environmental history…
An account of how national parks developed into one of the most important arenas of contention between native peoples and non-Indians in the twentieth century.
Do we owe the world-famous Kruger National Park to the triumph of “good” conservationists over the forces of “evil” commercial exploitation? Environmental historian Jane Carruthers investigates.
Anja Nygren reviews the 2017 book Green Wars: Colonization and Conservation in the Maya Forest by Megan Ybarra.
Based on 25 interviews with Australian environmental leaders, the authors assess the value and benefit of the World Heritage Convention and the UNDRIP in relation to Indigenous communities and cosmopolitanism.
Mention of the island nation of Madagascar conjures up images of exotic nature, rampant deforestation, and destructive erosion. Popular descriptions of the island frequently include phrases such as ‘ecological mayhem’ or ‘barren landscape.’