A review of: Landscape and Memory by Simon Schama; Ecological Relations in Historical Times: Human Impact and Adaptation by Robin A. Butlin, and Neil Roberts; and Hunters and Collectors: The Antiquarian Imagination in Australia by Tom Griffiths.
Environment and History (journal)
"Interfusing Ethics, Ecology and History: Disputing a Non-convergent Evolution"
“Coping with the Past: Patrick Geddes, Lewis Mumford and the Regional Museum”
The pioneer urban and environmental planner, Patrick Geddes, and his American disciple, Lewis Mumford, dismissed the monumental art museum as an outsized emblem of the garrison state, corporate consolidation, and imperial ambition…
"Nature Mastered by Man: Ideology and Water in the Soviet Union"
The vision of a new kind of society without private ownership, and thus profit interests, of natural resources had promised a utopia of man and nature in harmony. What went wrong?
"Forest Rights, Privileges and Prohibitions: Contextualising State Forestry Policy in Colonial Tanganyika"
This paper analyses the development of state forest management in Tanganyika and its effects on African access and use rights within the larger context of British colonial governance.
"Nature's Ombudsmen: The Evolution of Environmental Representation in Sweden"
In Sweden, during the 20th century, a number of different groups or institutions have nominated themselves as being Nature’s representatives. This essay deals with the ideas, motives or reasons for nature conservation advanced by these groups.
"The Environmental Crisis and the Tasks of History in Latin America"
The study of history in a sense that can be called ‘environmental’ is a discipline yet to be created in Latin America. This has become an obstacle that must be overcome if we are to understand better the serious social and environmental deterioration of the region.
Review of Ein Recht auf saubere Luft? Umweltkonflikte am Beginn des Industriezeitalters, by Michael Stolberg
Stolberg examines the history of air pollution as a scientific, social and political issue from 1800 to 1860.
"'Unswept stone, besmeer'd by sluttish time': Air Pollution and Building Stone Decay in Oxford, 1790–1960"
The advent of affordable coal in plentiful supply encouraged economic progress, but at the same time brought a largely silent pollution legacy which is still evident today…
"Historical Cadmium and Lead Pollution Studied in Growth Rings of Oak Wood"
Time-defined oak wood segments and soil samples were used as a source of information on the cadmium and lead pollution process induced by the emissions that occurred from 1726 to 1840 around a Swedish alumworks.
"Estimates of Air Pollution in York: 1381–1891"
Plume dispersion modelling has been used to estimate the smoke and sulphur dioxide concentrations for historic York in five individual years, 1381, 1672, 1841, 1851, and 1891. Historical data concerning population, housing, industrial distribution, fuel imports and exports have been used to generate a source matrix for sulphur dioxide and smoke for the model.