Arcadia

Arcadia, Autumn 2019, no. 32

Anaconda’s Pipelines: Water Supply Problems of a Desert Region

Anita Carrasco

This essay explores the paradoxical relationship between extractive activities of the mining company Anaconda and indigenous villages of Atacama, Chile.

Arcadia, Summer 2019, no. 31

An Environmental History of Tobacco Pests and Diseases in Southern Rhodesia, 1893–1940

Elijah Doro

A historical examination of the occurrence of pests and diseases in tobacco farming and the environmental impact in Southern Rhodesia.

Arcadia, Summer 2019, no. 30

Living in the Time of a Subsurface Revolution: The 1783 Calabrian Earthquake Sequence

Katrin Kleemann

In 1783, strong earthquakes shook Calabria. These events, in combination with a dry sulfuric fog, led contemporaries to believe they lived in the time of a “subsurface revolution.”

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.

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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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