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Explorations in Environmental History

Arcadia is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal for short, engaging environmental histories.
Arcadia, Spring 2021, no. 19

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

by
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

by
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

by
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

by
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

by
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

by
Mark Nuttall

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

Arcadia, Spring 2021, no. 13

Unwelcome but Dear: Poplar Trees in Northern Kazakhstan’s Post-Soviet Cityscapes

by
Zhanna Baimukhamedova

The environmental and imaginative significance of poplar trees in post-Soviet cities of Northern Kazakhstan.

Arcadia, Spring 2021, no. 12

Locust Infestations and Marginalized Communities in Colonial Western India in the Nineteenth Century

by
Pallavi Das and Vineet K. Giri

This article explores the impact of colonialism upon the marginalized communities of Bombay Presidency via the history of locust outbreaks.

Arcadia, Spring 2021, no. 11

The Enemy is Nature: Military Machines and Technological Bricolage in Britain’s “Great Agricultural Experiment”

by
Martin Mahony

Cobbled-together machines are turned loose on nature in a desperate bid to coax peanuts from the soils of Tanganyika Territory.

Arcadia, Spring 2021, no. 10

Becoming a Virgin Forest: From Remote Sensing to Erasing Environmental History

by
George Iordăchescu

As virgin forests become carbon sinks and biodiversity hotspots, their coproduced history is consigned to oblivion.

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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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Coastal History
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