Arcadia

Arcadia, Spring 2021, no. 3

Was Capitalism the Crisis? Mount Lebanon’s World War I Famine

Graham Auman Pitts

Mount Lebanon’s distinctive environmental history accounts for its susceptibility to famine.

Arcadia, Spring 2021, no. 2

Plastic Milk Bags and the Abandonment of a Hungarian Wood Pasture

Zoltán Tamás Samu, Judit Bódis, and Anna Varga

The introduction of plastic milk bags transformed parts of the Hungarian landscape.

Arcadia, Spring 2021, no. 1

Cleansing the Sacred Habitat in the Time of Coronavirus: Buddhist Sang Rituals in Sikkim in Response to the 2020 Covid-19 Pandemic

Kalzang Dorjee Bhutia

The Riwo Sangchö is a Buddhist purification ritual that has become popular in response to the Coronavirus in Sikkim, India.

Arcadia, Autumn 2020, no. 46

The Typhoid Epidemic in Philippopolis, 1878

İbrahim Can Usta

A brief narration about typhoid disease in the postwar Balkan city Philippopolis.

Arcadia, Autumn 2020, no. 45

Water, Firewood, and Disease in Nineteenth-Century Istanbul

Özlem Sert

This article looks at extreme droughts in Istanbul to understand the nineteenth-century changes in the Ottoman State.

Arcadia, Autumn 2020, no. 44

Italy’s Poison Ships: How an International Trade of Hazardous Waste Sparked a Grassroots Struggle for Environmental Justice

Claudio De Majo

A reflection on the globalization of toxic waste as a global environmental justice issue, both at home and abroad.

Arcadia, Autumn 2020, no. 43

The Natural Ice Factory at Røsneshamn, Norway: How to Compete with Big-Tech by Using Nature

Ingo K. Heidbrink

This article looks at how a fossil-fuel-based artificial ice producer challenged a competitor using renewable and sustainable resources.

Arcadia, Autumn 2020, no. 42

Views from Above: Light Airplanes and Wildlife Research and Management in the Serengeti during the 1950s and 1960s

Simone Schleper

In the 1960s, real-time aerial observations supported mixed forms of land use in African national parks.

Arcadia, Autumn 2020, no. 41

The Remarkable Ray of Dublin’s Ringsend

Cordula Scherer

On the common stingray and its longstanding place in the diet, health, and lives of people in Ringsend, Ireland.

Arcadia, Autumn 2020, no. 40

Stars, Mules, and Interferometers in Early Transnational Astronomy in 1960s Chile

Barbara K. Silva

This essay examines the multiple factors intertwined in the development of transnational astronomy in Chile in the 1960s.

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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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