Arcadia

Arcadia, Spring 2018, no. 12

Plant Politics in Karachi

Franklin Ginn

This article investigates how plants are supported by systems of ethno-political, military, and neoliberal power in urban Pakistan.

Arcadia, Spring 2018, no. 11

John Anthony Allan’s “Virtual Water”: Natural Resources Management in the Wake of Neoliberalism

Kaitlin Stack Whitney and Kristoffer Whitney

Virtual water is heralded as the solution to freshwater scarcity and overconsumption, but it oversimplifies global water flows.

Arcadia, Spring 2018, no. 10

Making the “European Yellowstone”—Unintended Consequences or Unrealistic Intentions?

George Iordăchescu

A neo-protectionist conservation plan proposes a private natural reserve in the Carpathians, promoting historically produced landscape as pristine nature and triggering growing discontent from local land users.

Arcadia, Spring 2018, no. 9

Resistance and Rewilding: The Return of Beavers to Knapdale Forest

Rosamund Portus

Beavers have been successfully reintroduced into Knapdale Forest, Scotland, an area where they went extinct over 400 years ago.

Arcadia, Spring 2018, no. 8

The Neste War 1970–1972: The First Victory of the Budding Finnish Environmental Movement

Matias Kaihovirta, Hanna Lindberg, and Mats Wickström

This article studies the “Neste war,” 1970–1972, the first major victory of the environmental movement in Finland.

Arcadia, Spring 2018, no. 7

Rabbits on the Edge: The Belonging of Pests in Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park

Sarah J. Bell

This article thinks differently about the belonging of rabbits in Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park, Australia.

Arcadia, Spring 2018, no. 6

“Moby Dick” in the Rhine: How a Beluga Whale Raised Awareness of Water Pollution in West Germany

Katrin Kleemann

In 1966, a stray beluga whale swimming up and down the polluted Lower Rhine caught the media’s attention in West Germany.

Arcadia, Spring 2018, no. 5

From Pulley to Pipe: The Decline of the Wells of Bangalore

Harini Nagendra and Hita Unnikrishnan

This article investigates the transition of water supply in Bangalore, where wells were gradually replaced by piped water.

Arcadia, Spring 2018, no. 4

A Shaggy-Bear Story: An Environmental History from a Remote Region

David Moon

This article looks afresh at the environmental history of Russia by starting from the perspective of some bears in Siberia.

Arcadia, Spring 2018, no. 3

Friedrich Haberlandt’s Failed Vision: Soy in European Food Cultures, 1873–1945

Ernst Langthaler

At the 1873 Viennese World’s Fair, the botanist Friedrich Haberlandt became enchanted with the vision of integrating soyfoods into European diets as a cheap source of protein.

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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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