The state of Western Australian makes its first serious attempt to protect its indigenous flora.
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During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, massive floods regularly threatened cities and settlements along the Danube River. The introduction of wide-reaching telegraph networks enabled Habsburg authorities in Vienna to protect the most important city of the empire.
On 25 January 1421, the newly elected mayor of Coventry, England issued a proclamation that gives us insights into medieval urban sanitation concerns and their regulation in the later medieval period.
After the collapse of the Austrian-Hungarian monarchy Austria was disconnected from its coal resources. Electricity production was focused on hydropower. The Möll is an example for the turn from local energy production to supranational electricity provision.
Explores the conceptualization of environments as landscape, philosophically and historically.
Fourteen environmental historians investigate the rhetoric and realities of exotic, introduced, and ‘alien’ species.
Martin Knoll, Carson Fellow from October to March 2009, talks about his research concerning perceptions of nature and the creation of environmental knowledge in early modern topographical literature.
From the nineteenth century onward the Piedmontese royal house contributed to the preservation of the Alpine ibex. As such, the Gran Paradiso, first as a hunting reserve and then as a national park, became the last Alpine refuge for this iconic animal.
An environmental history of the Industrial Revolution, as inscribed on the Liri valley in Italy’s Central Apennines.
In January 1910, a one-hundred-year flood of the Seine disrupted northern France. Many towns suffered severe damage, but Paris was particularly devastated.