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Crossing Mountains: The Challenges of Doing Environmental History

About this issue

This issue of RCC Perspectives uses mountains as a common denominator around which to discuss overarching challenges of environmental history: challenges relating not only to mountain landscapes, but also to broader questions of sources, methods, cross-cultural research, project scale, and audience. Each author discusses some of their most intriguing discoveries, resulting in a brief and diverse collection of environmental history snapshots.

Content

A Latecoming Pioneer: Austria's Hohe Tauern National Park

by Patrick Kupper and Anna-Katharina Wöbse

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Arcadia, 2014, no. 9

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Towards a Political Ecology of Scale in High Mountains

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Perspectives Issue 2012/5

This article looks at how the ongoing processes of border-making are experienced and negotiated by the ethnic minorities who live in the Himalayan mountain peripheries.

“I Prefer to Die on the Mountain”: Local Resistance to National Park Development on Mount Merapi

by Steven Rodriguez

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Arcadia, 2014, no. 1

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Resources and Revolution: Mexico’s Iztaccíhuatl and Popocatépetl National Park

by Emily Wakild

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Arcadia, 2013, no. 15

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Highland Sanctuary: Environmental History in Tanzania's Usambara Mountains

Highland Sanctuary unravels the complex interactions among agriculture, herding, forestry, the colonial state, and the landscape in the Usambara mountains of Tanzania.

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The Triglav National Park: A Century-Long Project

by Carolin Roeder

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Arcadia, 2013, no. 13

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Culture, Environment, and Conservation in the Appalachian South

Focusing on the mountainous area from northern Alabama to West Virginia, this important volume explores the historic and contemporary interrelations between culture and environment in a region that has been plagued by land misuse and damaging stereotypes of its people.

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Mount Mitchell and the Black Mountains: An Environmental History of the Highest Peaks in Eastern America

Timothy Silver explores the long and complicated history of the Black Mountains, drawing on both the historical record and his experience as a backpacker and fly fisherman.

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Contested Mountains: Nature, Development and Environment in the Cairngorms Region of Scotland, 1880–1980

This contribution to the literature on the recent environmental history of Britain is an exhaustively detailed study of the interplay between tourism, conservation, and landownership in one of the most popular tourist areas in Scotland.

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