Looks at popular esayari (animal-feeding) behavior in Japan, why people do it, and what its effects are.
Looks at the changing governance practices towards agro-ecological resources and the political response that it received from the agrarian community in colonial eastern Bengal.
Explores how the relationship of Adivasis to their surroundings was gradually reshaped under colonial rule in Bengal, leading to increased sedentarization of Adivasis through the extension of cultivation.
The Gangetic basin, traditionally famous for huge crop production and rice farming, has witnessed gradual alteration in the land-use pattern over the last hundred years.
This paper traces the journey of sand carried by China’s Yellow River to Lankao County, one of the locales most affected by sandification.
This volume of RCC Perspectives considers what it means to work across disciplines in environmental studies and how such projects can best be realized.
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Traces the changes in the economy and land use in the Greater Caribbean from the colonial period to the present.
Over time, the peoples living in Latin America’s diverse landscapes have developed complex and varied ways of understanding the world around them. For much of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the main goal of the sciences was to keep Latin America’s “prodigal” landscapes as productive as possible. Since the mid-twentieth century, a new countercurrent has emerged, which focuses on using science to conserve biological diversity, and to promote sustainability.
This article looks at “acclimatisation societies,” which first appeared in the nineteenth century
This article looks at three approaches through history of humans to birds.
