The European Green Belt is a pan-European project to protect the environment and consolidate peace along the former Iron Curtain throughout Europe.
The Circeo National Park was created in 1934 as a propaganda tool to serve as a reminder of how the area looked during the Roman Empire. In fact, the area had been radically modified by Fascist land-reclamation policies and practices.
Valaam Island on Lake Ladoga is the location of the Orthodox Valaam Monastery. Due to the creation of alleys and gardens carefully cultivated by the monks, many non-endemic trees and plants acclimatized successfully. As a result, Valaam’s largely man-made environment is today considered to be one of the most dense and diverse biospheres in Europe.
The article discusses the role of native trees as representatives of national identity and belonging.
The history of Puckapunyal Military Training Area illustrates how war and the environment interact in sometimes unexpected ways.
Pest control was a political act in late-nineteenth-century Hawaiʻi, helping sugarcane planters pursue annexation to the United States.
In 1980, Modena was the first city in Italy to introduce a law recognizing social urban allotments.
Once a denuded gold mining landscape, now a National Heritage Park, this place is site of emerging environmental histories of post-colonizing, post-mining lands.
This article focuses on the loss of the Sambisa Forest as a game reserve due to the conflict between the Nigerian army and the terrorist group Boko Haram.
Beavers have been successfully reintroduced into Knapdale Forest, Scotland, an area where they went extinct over 400 years ago.
