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Small Farmers, Their Association, and the Transformation of the Australian Sugar Industry
This article shows how rural collective action in tropical Australia transformed plantations into small farms in the late nineteenth century.
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Layers of Meaning and Layers of Time in a Former Russian Peat Mining Region
This article explores the social and ecological legacies of the peat industry in Russia and the different meanings that people attach to peatlands after the end of peat extraction.
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Facing Changes, Changing Targets: Sperm-Whale Hunting in Late Eighteenth-Century Brazil
This article investigates the origins of the exploitation of sperm whales off the Brazilian coast in the eighteenth century.
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Was Capitalism the Crisis? Mount Lebanon’s World War I Famine
Mount Lebanon’s distinctive environmental history accounts for its susceptibility to famine.
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Electronic Waste in Guiyu: A City under Change?
Once the largest toxic e-waste dump in the world, government investment in environmentally sustainable recycling has begun to change Guiyu.
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The Maijuna: Fighting for Survival in the Peruvian Amazon
The Maijuna, an endangered indigenous group, are fighting for survival in the midst of development pressures in the Peruvian Amazon.
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Seed Oysters in Entangled Worlds: Ecological Disturbances, Knowledge Making, and Potentialities in Miyagi, Japan
This article focuses on the contingent practices that constitute oyster aquaculture in contemporary Japan and the multiple forms of more-than-human entanglements that emerge as a result.
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Water Flows and Topographic Networks of Power: Social Struggles for Water in the Copiapó Valley in the Eighteenth Century
This article rethinks the environmental history of water and power in Copiapó between 1744 and 1801.
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Virtuous Bees: How Beekeeping Helps Protect Primary Forests in the Russian Far East
This article discusses forest beekeeping in the Russian Far East and its unique role in protecting primary forests in the context of Aristotelian ethics.
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Histories of Central Himalayan Herbs: Vanaspati Karyalaya in Tehri Princely State c. 1879–1950
When the mystical marketing of Himalayan medicines elides the social and ecological worlds of Himalayan meadows.