Nature Unites: Peace and Conservation in the Former Death Zone – the European Green Belt
The European Green Belt is a pan-European project to protect the environment and consolidate peace along the former Iron Curtain throughout Europe.
The European Green Belt is a pan-European project to protect the environment and consolidate peace along the former Iron Curtain throughout Europe.
In the second half of the nineteenth century, projects aimed at improving ship-based commerce by connecting various rivers boomed. One such project was the establishment of an Elbe-Vltava-Danube canal, which, however, was never completed.
On October 9, 1963, a landslide above the Vajont Dam created a wave that destroyed several villages in the valley, killing about 2,000 people. Opinion as to whether to interpret the disaster as natural or one caused by human error remains divided.
Analysing the natural and social conditions for soil nutrients in the small Catalan village of Sentmenat during the 1860s, this interdisciplinary study aims to bridge the gap between history and ecology in order to draw lessons for sustainable agricultural systems from the pre-industrial era.
The construction of a giant dam across the Strait of Gibraltar, proposed by the Munich architect Hermann Sörgel (1885–1952), would have created the largest hydroelectric facility in the world.
The arrival in 2010 of a major international public art exhibition in the heart of the Emscher valley marked a new chapter in the regeneration of an area, where infrastructure, environmental, and art history continue to become entangled in new and fascinating ways.
Burning cultivation of peatlands was by far the greatest source of carbon dioxide in Finland during the whole of nineteenth century and at the beginning of the twentieth century.
Numerous cartographic and written historical sources tell the story of the measures Vienna’s dynamic Danube riverscape underwent in an extensive effort to secure navigation between the main river arm and the city within the last 500 years.
A classic proponent of the trans-European Economic Enlightenment, the Oekonomische Gesellschaft Bern, founded in 1759, strove to optimize the use of the region’s resources in order to protect the sovereignty of the state of Bern. Its significance should not be measured according to its immediate practical effects, but rather in view of how its ideas for new forms of scientifically based natural resource usage unfolded over the long term.
As a response to perceived lumber shortages, Niklaus Emanuel Tscharner sketched a comprehensive strategy for achieving forest sustainability which included political proposals, forestry instructions and moral appeals.