Periodicals

Tourists are in a liminal position, on the verge of reality, and they need to communicate the success of this borderline experience back home.

This article examines the long-term anthropogenic factors that have affected the Atlantic Coastal Forest.

This study examines the role of colonial foresters in introducing new socioeconomic arrangements that resulted in increased poverty among the Tonga, Shona, and Ndebele communities in the Gwai Forest Reserve of North-Western Matabeleland, Zimbabwe.

The modernization, the declinist, and the inclinist paradigms of the late twentieth century, despite their differences, all tended to frame environmental change in a unilinear Nature-to-Culture fashion, which in turn entailed homogenizing the agency, process, and outcome of environmental change. This article examines the characteristics of each paradigm, as well as some of the paradoxes that have arisen in their wake. Finally, it looks to alternative approaches.

Under the European colonial powers, agricultural methods and techniques, along with well-organized routines in sugar production, were developed on the Caribbean islands with a view to managing sugar plantations as efficiently as possible. The results were in many cases deforestation, impoverished soils, and erosion.

Holly High reflects on how past violence becomes incorporated into contemporary landscapes and associated narratives.

Castro wishes to encourage a new reading of the best-known sources and authors associated with this issue, as well as the adoption of a new perspective on the deep origins of the environmental problems that the country faces today.

Editors in chief Mauro Agnoletti and Gabriella Corona outline the journal’s objectives in its first issue.

Using the controversy over copyright on the internet as a case study and the history of the environmental movement as a comparison, this article offers a couple of modest proposals about what a politics of intellectual property might look like.

In this book, David Biggs explores the actual uses of land and water in Vietnam through its troubled history.