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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. 9

Sandpipers and the Art of Letting Go: Narratives of Conservation in the Wadden Sea

by
Eveline de Smalen

How birds and poetry reacquaint us with an awareness of history and feelings of loss in Anthropocene nature reserves.

Arcadia, Spring 2021, no. 8

Humans and Other Pollinators in the Oil Palm Plantation Complex

by
Jonathan Robins

Humans have a long history of meddling in the oil palm’s sex life.

Arcadia, Spring 2021, no. 7

Memories from the Disaster in 2004 of the Ship Vicuña

by
Priscila Onório Figueira

The ship accident of Vicuña is considered one of the biggest disasters that occurred on the Brazilian coast of Paraná, Brazil.

Arcadia, Spring 2021, no. 6

Mining and Environmental Destruction in Minas Gerais: A Historical Comparison

by
Carolina Capanema

Historical documents indicate that the disasters caused by mining in Brazil are a reality since the eighteenth century.

Arcadia, Spring 2021, no. 5

Rat Tech: Transforming Rodents into Technology in Tanzania

by
Jia Hui Lee

In Tanzania, those who consider rats technology envision nature as being transformed through social practices that rework environmental histories.

Arcadia, Spring 2021, no. 4

“A healthy mountainous island surrounded by a sea of malaria”: Ecology and War in the Caucasus

by
Marin Coudreau

A case study of the effects of malaria in the Caucasus across the revolutionary divide of 1917.

Arcadia, Spring 2021, no. 3

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

by
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

by
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

by
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

by
İbrahim Can Usta

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

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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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