A report on the activities and debates at the fifth World Water Forum held at Istanbul in March 2009.
Periodicals
"'Bridging Divides for Water': The Fifth World Water Forum (WWF) and the Alternative Water Forum"
"Agroecosystem, Peasants, and Conflicts: Environmental History in Spain at the Beginning of the Twenty-first Century"
An examination of the origin, development, and future of environmental history in Spanish historiography.
"Macroeconomic and Environmental History: The Impact of Currency Depreciation on Forests in British India, 1873–93"
A closer examination of India’s monetary history reveals that there exist many similarities between the effects of structural adjustment programs and those of monetary disturbances in the last quarter of the nineteenth century due to the depreciation of the rupee.
"International Conservation Governance and the Early History of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania"
An early history of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA), Tanzania, during the late 1950s and early 1960s.
"Peasant Protest as Environmental Protest: Some Cases from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century"
A nuanced treatment of the relation between peasant protests and environment with reference to a broad range of examples from Mediterranean Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Africa.
"Sustaining Soil Fertility: Agricultural Practice in the Old and New Worlds"
Using case studies from Austria and Kansas, this paper compares the socioecological structures of the agricultural communities immigrants left to those that they found and created on the other side of the Atlantic.
"Editorial" for Global Environment 4
This fourth issue continues the journal’s exploration of the scientific paradigms of global environmental history.
Roundtable Review of In the Field, Among the Feathered by Thomas R. Dunlap
Thomas R. Dunlap discusses the development of birding and its long-term public influence in the USA through the history of field guides.
Roundtable Review of Enclosing Water by Stefania Barca
Stefania Barca presents an environmental history of the Industrial Revolution, through the lens of the Liri River Valley.
"Editorial" for Global Environment 3
Covers the content of this issue’s analysis of modern environmental systems, and how these systems have changed over time.