The social history of the La Plata River Basin has been intrinsically tied to its landscapes and their transformation. This article divides the history of this region into three overarching periods in a process of intensifying natural resource use.
During the colonial period, human occupation of Brazil was sparse, fragmented, and uneven. The most significant transformations in rural and urban landscapes in Brazil began in the mid-twentieth century, as part of a broader process of social and economic transformation which brought urbanisation and industrialisation to Brazil.
The close coexistence of multiple worldviews, which I identify in their most extreme incarnations as indigenous and mestizo, are key to understanding the environmental history of the Tropical Andes from the nineteenth century.
Mexico’s liberal political revolution of 1854, the social revolution of 1910, and the Green Revolution that began in 1943 each left ecological and political footprints that influenced the subsequent one.
The article traces the history of mining and smelting in Ramsbeck, Germany, showing how conflicting interests between mining and agriculture were negotiated.
This volume of RCC Perspectives, featuring artwork by Australian artist Mandy Martin, is a tribute to the wonderful career of Jane Carruthers.
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This article assesses the merits of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Protected Areas Matrix, and asks whether we are destroying endogenous processes that generate biocultural diversity in our quest to conserve it.
Ecovillage resident and author Diana Leafe Christian talks about life in an ecovillage.
This article is the syllabus for a course that surveys the history of Western thought from the standpoint of the brain.
This article is a critique of Daniel Lord Smail’s book On Deep History and the Brain.
