"Native Forest and the Rise of Preservation in New Zealand (1903–1913)"
This paper analyses the turning-point in attitudes to the most distinctive feature of one nation’s indigenous environment.
This paper analyses the turning-point in attitudes to the most distinctive feature of one nation’s indigenous environment.
The paper asks, what historical conditions made it possible to conceive of hydro technical engineering in moral categories?
The Circeo National Park was created in 1934 as a propaganda tool to serve as a reminder of how the area looked during the Roman Empire. In fact, the area had been radically modified by Fascist land-reclamation policies and practices.
This case in St. Petersburg, Russia, proves vegetation to be an actor in state politics of cultural landscapes.
Fencing for biosecurity reasons is a contentious topic among pig farmers, environmental organizations, politicians, and borderland communities.
Once an environment in which the notion of nations was unheard of, the Arctic region is now a disputed space among superpowers. This is a chapter of the virtual exhibition “The Northwest Passage: Myth, Environment, and Resources”—written and curated by historian Elena Baldassarri.