Periodicals

The article analyzes the interaction between security and environment in the Mediterranean, focusing on the paradigmatic example of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict over water resources in the Jordan River basin.

Agnoletti and Corona provide the background on this issue.

Environmental historian Federico Paolini talks to Wolfgang Sachs, head of the Berlin office of the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment, and Energy, about some of today’s major environmental issues. These range from ecological justice to resources, development, and climate.

Reinaldo Funes Monzote traces the history of the Latin American and Caribbean Society of Environmental History, also known as SOLCHA.

Japan has one of the most eco-efficient economies in the world. The present paper looks at the history of two central policy measures designed to stimulate the emergence of a more sustainable industrial base.

A review of economist Óscar Carpintero’s history of resource use in the Spanish economy.

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.