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Arcadia, Summer 2021, no. 23

From Rains to Floods: A Case of Chennai in 2015

Anjana Vencatesan

This article looks at the terminology around the 2015 flooding in Chennai city in India.

Arcadia, Summer 2021, no. 22

Missionizing and Transforming the Land: Alexander Merensky in Botshabelo

Helge Wendt

With the foundation of the mission village Botshabelo, new plant and animal species settle in this region, whose landscape is heavily altered.

Arcadia, Summer 2021, no. 21

A Crab’s-Eye View of the Food Chain in Contemporary China

Stephen R. Halsey

This article rethinks Chinese foodways and invasive species from a crab’s perspective.

Arcadia, Summer 2021, no. 20

Development or Dunes? The Long Struggle to Protect Perth’s Scarborough Beach Coastal Reserve

Robyn Gulliver

The long battle to protect Scarborough Beach’s coastal dunes demonstrates both the power and limitations of local grassroots advocacy groups.

Arcadia, Spring 2021, no. 19

Ban the Burn: The Trans-Local Campaign against Ocean Incineration, 1983–1988

Dario Fazzi

This article charts the rise and fall of ocean incineration and describes how coastal communities and transnational organizations challenged it.

Arcadia, Spring 2021, no. 18

Sea Where there Once was Land: Redcar, England

Suzi Richer

The sea gives and the sea takes away. The story of the submerged forest at Redcar, England.

Arcadia, Spring 2021, no. 17

Revealing the “Almerian Miracle”: Materiality of the Agrarian Modernization in the Campo de Dalías

Andreas Jünger

A reflection on the relevance of materialities in the history of the “Plastic Sea” of Almería.

Arcadia, Spring 2021, no. 16

Tyson Kills the Mulberry Fork

Nicholas Tyler Reich

Tyson Farms, Inc. spills 220,000 gallons of effluent into the Black Warrior River, killing over two hundred thousand fish.

Arcadia, Spring 2021, no. 15

The Brazilian Campos in Nineteenth-Century Landscape Art

André S. Bailão

The settler occupation of Central Brazil is the focus of nineteenth-century landscape art.

Arcadia, Spring 2021, no. 14

“The battle of geological experts”: Water Flow and Tunneling within a Welsh Mountain

Mark Nuttall

This article discusses controversy over drainage tunnels in a Welsh lead mining region in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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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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