"Water as a Weapon: The History of Water Supply Development in Nkayi District, Zimbabwe"
This paper argues that much historical and political analysis of Zimbabwe neglects a crucial resource: water.
This paper argues that much historical and political analysis of Zimbabwe neglects a crucial resource: water.
The international debate over sustainable utilisation of animal species often reaches a fever pitch, especially when Northern and Southern governments and NGOs clash.
Two broad themes taken up in the literature will be the focus of this essay: how far colonialism was an ecological watershed, and how producers responded to new pressures. The third issue is of what we can or should learn (or unlearn) from the colonial experience.
Recent and current environmental legislation in Nepal is described, and its relation to sustainable development analysed.
Stolberg examines the history of air pollution as a scientific, social and political issue from 1800 to 1860.
Coutinho’s analysis compares and contrasts claims put forward in the journal The Ecologist between 1970 and 1993, with those advanced in the report of the World Commission on Environment and Development published in book form under the title Our Common Future in 1987.
Commentary on the articles in this special issue of Environment and History, “Ecological Visionaries/Ecologised Visions.”
This paper attempts to show the ways in which the recurring image of an older landscape served as a powerful metaphor in Chotanagpur’s resurgence.
This paper examines argues that common property regimes in the Indian Himalayas historically provided only one of an interdependent set of production strategies.
While gender-blindness has characterised much writing on colonial environmental history, women have assumed center-stage in the historical narratives produced by two linked contemporary policy discourses: ecofeminism, and ‘women, environment and development.’