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Arcadia, Summer 2016, no. 10

Banff Is … Hell? The Struggle of Being Canada’s First, Most Famous, and Most Visited National Park

Alan MacEachern

Banff is the Canadian national park you have heard of.

Arcadia, Summer 2016, no. 9

Brewing, Industrialization, and London Water Supplies

Richard Unger

Making more beer for eighteenth-century London’s growing population increased the need for clean water. Efforts to guarantee supplies to the brewers had an effect on both urban and rural landscapes.

Arcadia, Summer 2016, no. 8

“The Most Beautiful Valley in Japan”: Kamikōchi, the Japan Alps, and National Parks in Japan

Tom Jones

Kamikōchi is the southern gateway to the Japan Alps, which in 1934 was one of the first areas in Japan to be designated a national park. This was the result of a rapid rise to prominence that followed a 1927 newspaper poll of Japanese landscapes.

Arcadia, Summer 2016, no. 7

Wildfire Stories: Framing a Complicated Relationship

Sabine Wilke

In 2014 and 2015 the Methow Valley in Washington State experienced the largest wildfires in the state’s history.

Arcadia, Spring 2016, no. 6

Carbon Bomb: Indonesia’s Failed Mega Rice Project

Jenny Goldstein

In 1997 and 1998 peat swamp forests burned in Borneo, Indonesia, spewing big amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

Arcadia, Spring 2016, no. 5

Animal Rights vs. Bullfights: The Horns of an Indian Dilemma

Rita Brara

Animal rights prevailed over bullfights in a recent judgment of the Supreme Court of India.

Arcadia, Spring 2016, no. 4

Rothschild's Wilderness: How a Primeval Forest Survived the Timber Industry

Bernhard E. Splechtna and Karl Splechtna

History of the primeval forest Urwald Rothwald and how it survived through time.

Arcadia, Spring 2016, no. 3

Nature, Beauty, Tourism: The Concurrent Roots of Abruzzo National Park

Luigi Piccioni

In the early 1920s one of the first European national parks was established in a densely populated area to foster both nature protection and economic growth.

Arcadia, Spring 2016, no. 2

American Horses for the South African War, 1899–1902

Philip A. Homan

American equines shipped to the South African War suffered conditions like those on slave ships in the transatlantic slave trade.

Arcadia, Spring 2016, no. 1

“Citizens of a Watershed”: The Colorado River Compact and the Exigencies of Drought

Lauren Foster and Stacy N. Roberts

The premises of water allocation legislation came under harsh scrutiny in the early 2000s as severe drought plagued the American Southwest.

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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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