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Arcadia, Spring 2024, no. 5

Limits of the Landscape: A Waste Incinerator for Zurich’s Countryside

Jan Schweizer

How does a waste incinerator take part in the production of a Swiss landscape?

Arcadia, Spring 2024, no. 4

Boiling Memories: Thermal Waters as Nexus of Trauma and Community Agency in Draginovo’s Mnemonic Waterscape

Ivo Strahilov

In 1971, the Bulgarian Socialist government destroyed the cemetery of a Pomak village and built a public bath on its place.

Arcadia, Spring 2024, no. 3

Ecopolitical Space in a Riverine Landscape of South Asia

Vipul Singh

The article shows how ecological and geographical features influence the configuration of political space within a region.

Arcadia, Spring 2024, no. 2

Dreams of Optimizing the Ocean: The 1970 Deepsea Ventures Mining Test and Artificial Upwelling

Yoram Carboex

In contrast to today’s environmental concerns, the first deep-sea-mining environmental impact assessment, undertaken in the early 1970s, focused on the potential positive side effects.

Arcadia, Spring 2024, no. 1

One Century of Reindeer on South Georgia: From Introduction to Eradication

Ingo K. Heidbrink

Beginning in 2013, reindeer on South Georgia—originally brought to the island by whalers in 1911—were eradicated in order to safeguard local biodiversity.

Arcadia, Autumn 2023, no. 24

“Is This a Society of Humans or of Dogs?”: The Issue of Roaming Dogs in Nineteenth-Century Athens

Iosif Botetzagias

In Athens, 1886, an unprecedented debate took place concerning the poisoning of roaming dogs.

Arcadia, Autumn 2023, no. 23

“Too Much Loose Sand”: Narrating Coastal Erosion in Southeast Ireland

Claire Connolly, Ailbhe McDaid, and James L. Smith

An exploration of Colm Tóibín’s literary responses to the coastal erosion of Ireland’s County Wexford.

Arcadia, Autumn 2023, no. 22

Historic Lake Level Variability and Current Disasters on the Shores of Lake Tanganyika

Philip Gooding

A historically grounded interpretation of Lake Tanganyika’s rising lake waters shows that global warming presents just one of many challenges facing the region.

Arcadia, Autumn 2023, no. 21

Four Legs Good, Two Legs Bad: Animals Return to the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone

Robert Jacobs

How we project our own fantasies onto animals in Chernobyl depends on if they are what animals we have in mind.

Arcadia, Autumn 2023, no. 20

A More-than-Human Viewpoint on the History of a “Peruvian” Disease

José Ignacio Mogrovejo

A disease that is now a national symbol of Peru’s medical achievements is the result of a tiny sandfly

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Arcadia: Explorations in Environmental History is an open-access, peer-reviewed publication platform for short, illustrated, and engaging environmental histories. Embedded in a particular time and place, each story focuses on a site, event, person, organization, or species as it relates to nature and human society. By publishing digitally on the Environment & Society Portal, Arcadia promotes accessibility and visibility of original research in global environmental history and cognate disciplines.

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