The Editorial Team offers an introduction to the journal Environmental Humanities.
Periodicals
“Thinking Through the Environment, Unsettling the Humanities”
Roundtable Review of Wired Wilderness by Etienne Benson
Sara Dant, Michael Lewis, and Robert M. Wilson discuss Etienne Benson’s Wired Wilderness: Technologies of Tracking and the Making of Modern Wildlife.
Roundtable Review of Making a Green Machine by Finn Arne Jørgensen
Peter Thorsheim, Heike Weber, Tim Cooper, and Carl A. Zimring discuss Finn Arne Jørgensen’s book on the Scandinavian beverage container deposit-refund system.
Review of An Environmental History of Latin America by Shawn William Miller
A glowing review of a synthesis of some of the key themes in the study of environmental history as it relates to Latin America.
"'Bridging Divides for Water': The Fifth World Water Forum (WWF) and the Alternative Water Forum"
A report on the activities and debates at the fifth World Water Forum held at Istanbul in March 2009.
"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.