"The Attitude of Kautilya to Aranya"
The Kautiliya Arthasastra is a famous treatise on state-craft which within its state policies includes ecological concerns…
The Kautiliya Arthasastra is a famous treatise on state-craft which within its state policies includes ecological concerns…
Ringbarking, as a means of destroying trees, was known and practised from the earliest years of British settlement in New South Wales…
This paper analyses the turning-point in attitudes to the most distinctive feature of one nation’s indigenous environment.
Australia and New Zealand share a southern, settler society history, and cultural solidarity as British colonies and dominions. Their early unity as ‘Australasia’ is where this paper begins, focusing on the strong role of science in shaping environmental history and policy in both countries.
The paper reviews the changes that have taken place in Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Yemen with regard to the hima—a reserved pasture, where trees and grazing lands are protected from indiscriminate harvest on a temporary or permanent basis.
Between 1915 and 1961 a state-run trawling industry operated on the South-east Australian shelf targeting tiger flathead (Neoplatycephalus richardsoni) as its principal species…
An edited collection investigating the history of forestry in the United States from the nineteenth century onward.
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.
Investigates the significance of the Sundarbans as a natural reserve or buffer area (a resource of yet unknown magnitude) in pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial South Asia.
Until the project was finally abandoned in 1989, the Kaiseraugst nuclear power plant was the focus of Swiss disputes on nuclear energy for almost twenty years. In this case study, Patrick Kupper pursues the question of how an electro-technical infrastructure project could become the focal point of discourse about common basic values of Swiss society.