This study draws on economic and environmental historical approaches to explore the consumption-conservation nexus in the use of African natural resources. It explores environmental changes resulting from a range of interactive factors, including climate, population, disease, vegetation and technology.
The aim of the paper is to present a summary of the current scholarship on the climate of the Carpathian Basin in the Middle Ages by drawing upon research from the natural sciences, archaeology and history.
This article discusses the need to broaden the debate about land rush by including a few key issues that have been neglected. Control over land is increasingly dictated by global actors and processes, leading to a patchwork of locally disembedded land holdings, not conducive for inclusive and sustainable development at the local level.
This article looks at the history of colonial forest policies in South India to argue that initially British destroyed most the accessible forests and used desiccationist fears to justify the colonial state’s monopolistic control over the forests.
This article examines a trend in town-planning studies known as “reformist” that developed in Italy and marked a deep change in land management concepts. Beginning in the Sixties, it sought to reform the economic growth to limit its negative social and environmental impact.
This article analyzes how World War II impacted both the marine and the terrestrial environment of the North Atlantic, triggered major political and economic decisions with profound cultural implications, and eventually induced a change in ocean management.
The paper examines the increasing trend of philanthropic bodies and private individuals to invest in the conservation of Australia’s biodiversity. This is seen as part of a more general Western trend in which Australian organizations are linked to bodies such as the large US-based Nature Conservancy.
This article explores the relationship between disasters and the population movements in two case studies: The 1908 Messina earthquake and the 1968 Belice Valley earthquake.
This paper suggests that environmental migration in western Rajasthan, once viewed as a response to drought and famine, has also developed into a planned livelihood strategy.
This article explores the connection between the significant health improvements made in the developing world, particularly after World War II, and the goal of providing clean water and sanitation services to large urban centers in these countries.
