“The Unbearable Weight of Displaced Weather”
Human geographer Mike Hulme looks at sociotechnical developments that have changed the climate and, at the same time, the way we experience the weather.
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A Letter to the Citizens of Hangzhou
Environmental historian Fei Sheng, a native of Hangzhou, addresses this city’s citizens to consider balancing economic growth with environmental protection while expressing hope for Hangzhou’s future.
Links Between State Power and Tree Species: Black Locust in Central Europe
Arcadia, Spring 2025, no. 2
“‘Everybody Talks About the Weather’”
The surprising career of the advertising slogan “everybody talks about the weather” is a story about political transformation.
The Planting of the First National Forests in Brazil: Forest Policy and the Emergence of Tropical Forestry in the Nineteenth Century
“Environmental Historians, Policy, and Governance”
This book chapter explores how environmental historians might interact with, and have interacted with, policymaking and the broader suite of environmental governance that operates at many jurisdictional scales
“Green States in a Dirty World: 1975 and the Performance of Nordic Green Modern”
This book chapter examines the 1975 Nordic Council conference at Frostavallen in Sweden as a transnational media event which specifically sought to articulate a green modernity to the outside world.
“Making a Model: The 1974 Nordic Environmental Protection Convention and Nordic Attempts to Form International Environmental Law”
This article investigates the 1974 Nordic Environmental Protection Convention and reveals aspects not previously discussed.
“Ecotone Scholarship and Structural Change”
A reflection on cross-disciplinary scholarship in environmental history.
“An Environmental History Perspective on the UN Agenda 2030 (‘Sustainable Development Goals’)”
A reflection on the Sustainabile Development Goals (SDGs) in environmental history.