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Creating Safety, Courting Disaster on the Lower Shinano River, Japan
Engineering the Lower Shinano River in northeastern Japan expanded the risk of other flood and tsunami damage.
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American Cockroaches, Racism, and the Ecology of the Slave Ship
Garcia follows the migration of the American cockroach from its tropical origins in western Africa via slave ships to the New World.
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What Is Yellow Fever? Disease and Causation in Environmental History
Rather than revealing the power of nature to shape human history, yellow fever is a disease that historically entangles nature and culture.
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Friedrich Haberlandt’s Failed Vision: Soy in European Food Cultures, 1873–1945
At the 1873 Viennese World’s Fair, the botanist Friedrich Haberlandt became enchanted with the vision of integrating soyfoods into European diets as a cheap source of protein.
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A Shaggy-Bear Story: An Environmental History from a Remote Region
This article looks afresh at the environmental history of Russia by starting from the perspective of some bears in Siberia.
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Rabbits on the Edge: The Belonging of Pests in Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park
This article thinks differently about the belonging of rabbits in Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park, Australia.
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From Pulley to Pipe: The Decline of the Wells of Bangalore
This article investigates the transition of water supply in Bangalore, where wells were gradually replaced by piped water.
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The Lost Lakes of Bangalore
The urbanization of Bangalore transformed the once-strong relationship between communities and the lakes that they once created and maintained.
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The Lake That Became a Sports Stadium
The transformation of the Sampangi Lake into the present-day Sri Kanteerava Stadium.
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Making the “European Yellowstone”—Unintended Consequences or Unrealistic Intentions?
A neo-protectionist conservation plan proposes a private natural reserve in the Carpathians, promoting historically produced landscape as pristine nature and triggering growing discontent from local land users.