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Explorations in Environmental History

Arcadia is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal for short, engaging environmental histories.
Arcadia, Spring 2019, no. 9

Searching for Stability: Energy, Entropy, and the Abandoning of the Panatomic Canal

by
Jordan Coulombe

Scientists work to deploy atomic energy in Panama, but fail to overcome the country’s entropic environment.

Arcadia, Spring 2019, no. 8

Mountain, Militarized: North Korea, Nuclear Tests, and Nature

by
Lisa Brady

This essay examines North Korea’s 2017 nuclear test as an example of how the Korean peninsula’s landscapes became militarized.

Arcadia, Spring 2019, no. 7

Methodological Benefits of a GIS Map: The Example of the Eldgjá Eruption of the Late 930s CE and the Reliability of Historical Documents

by
Stephan Ebert

The Eldgjá eruption in Iceland in the late 930s CE seems to have had tremendous repercussions. Only a few historical documents were written during the time in question.

Arcadia, Spring 2019, no. 6

Ancestral Outdoorsmen and Historical Hikes

by
Benjamin Jordan

These Boy Scout images, particularly focused on the 1919–1925 era, demonstrate that human labor and history permeated popular American nature ideology and hiking practices at that time.

Arcadia, Spring 2019, no. 5

Mumbai’s Doongerwadi Forest: Revisiting the Death of Nature in the Future City

by
Anne Rademacher

This article explores the past and future of one of Mumbai’s largest city forests.

Arcadia, Spring 2019, no. 4

Tropical Australia's Crocodile Entrepreneurs

by
Claire Brennan

Crocodiles attract tourists, and since the late 1940s, they have been used to promote travel to northern Australia.

Arcadia, Spring 2019, no. 3

American Champion Trees and the Wye Oak of Maryland

by
Jared Farmer

The surprising pedigree of a botanical idea.

Arcadia, Spring 2019, no. 2

The Lake That Became a Bus Terminus

by
Harini Nagendra and Hita Unnikrishnan

This article investigates the transformation of Bangalore’s Dharmambudhi lake into the central bus terminus.

Arcadia, Spring 2019, no. 1

Living on Coral Time: Debating Conservation in the Anthropocene

by
Irus Braverman

Coral scientists are dealing with an existential crisis and are divided between hope and despair in their approaches to coral conservation.

Arcadia, Autumn 2018, no. 31

Lahar Meets Locomotive: New Zealand’s Tangiwai Railway Disaster of Christmas Eve 1953

by
André Brett

The Tangiwai disaster of 1953, New Zealand’s worst railway accident, is an environmental disaster with an enduring legacy.

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About Arcadia

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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Coastal History
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