Arcadia

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.

Arcadia, Autumn 2015, no. 22

Ukraine and Camels: Features of the Incorporation into the Steppe Landscape

Anna Olenenko

This Arcadia article is about how camels used, until recently, to be a central feature of the steppe landscape of Southern Ukraine.

Arcadia, Autumn 2015, no. 21

Onions and Tires in Sodom and Gomorrah

Oliver Schwab

Agbogbloshie (Ghana) is an unnerving and fascinating example of human ingenuity, but at the same time an environmental and social tragedy.

Arcadia, Autumn 2015, no. 20

Fishing for Empire: Settlement and Maritime Conflict in the Russian Far East

Mark Sokolsky

Imperial tensions in the Russian Far East led Russian officials to create a fishing fleet ex nihilo as a means to ousting foreign (primarily Chinese and Japanese) fishermen from strategically valuable waters.

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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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