Arcadia

Arcadia, Summer 2019, no. 29

Electronic Waste in Guiyu: A City under Change?

Davor Mujezinovic

Once the largest toxic e-waste dump in the world, government investment in environmentally sustainable recycling has begun to change Guiyu.

Arcadia, Summer 2019, no. 28

Unifying the Yangzi Watershed in Early Twentieth-Century China

Yan Gao

This article examines early twentieth-century China’s top-down scheme of managing rivers based on watershed.

Arcadia, Summer 2019, no. 27

How a Catastrophic Flood of the Gürbe River Triggered the Rethinking of Local Flood Protection

Melanie Salvisberg

From channelizations to renaturations—the catastrophic flood of the Gürbe River in July 1990 prompted profound changes in approaches to flood protection.

Arcadia, Summer 2019, no. 26

Small Farmers, Their Association, and the Transformation of the Australian Sugar Industry

Bianka Vidonja Balanzategui

This article shows how rural collective action in tropical Australia transformed plantations into small farms in the late nineteenth century.

Arcadia, Summer 2019, no. 25

Managing Tourism and Environmental Protection in Lake Ohrid in the 1970s and 1980s

Josef M. Djordjevski

This article examines the development of lake Ohrid in Macedonia, and the dilemma between environmental protection and the expansion of mass tourism on the lake’s fragile shores.

Arcadia, Summer 2019, no. 24

Engaging Religion in the Fight for Environmental Justice: Jesuits and Conservation in the Palni Hills of South India

Joseph Satish Vedanayagam

This article introduces a case for engaging with religious worldviews which can support the cause for environmental justice.

Arcadia, Summer 2019, no. 23

The Invention of Voacanga africana as a Ceremonial Psychedelic

Timothy Vilgiate

This article examines transformations in the meaning and value of Voacanga africana.

Arcadia, Summer 2019, no. 22

A Story of Two Parks: Historical Roots of Environmentalism under Authoritarian Regimes in Twenty-First Century Europe

Onur İnal and Viktor Pál

This article analyzes the recent controversial environmental history of urban parks in Istanbul, Turkey, and Budapest, Hungary, under authoritarian regimes.

Arcadia, Summer 2019, no. 21

Biodiversity Offsetting and the Contradictions of the Capitalist Production of Nature

Elia Apostolopoulou

Biodiversity offsetting and the contradictions of the capitalist production of nature in England.

Arcadia, Summer 2019, no. 20

The Water Shops of Republican Tianjin

Mu Cao

The water shop was a crucial part of the traditional water supply system in imperial and early modern China.

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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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