

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.
In this book, Laura Dassow Walls describes how the explorer Alexander von Humboldt developed his unitary worldview.
Russell employs the notion of the coevolution of plants, animals, and microorganisms to explain the causes and consequences of a broad range of events.
In Toxic Bodies Langston tells us of the synthetic estrogen diethylstilbestrol (DES), a hormone disruptor that doctors prescribed to pregnant women for decades in the mid-twentieth century.
In this book David Zierler tries to explain the success of the campaign against herbicidal warfare that followed the start of Operation Ranch Hand in 1961.