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Carbon Bomb: Indonesia’s Failed Mega Rice Project
In 1997 and 1998 peat swamp forests burned in Borneo, Indonesia, spewing big amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
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Small-Scale Fisheries versus Whale-Watching Tourism: The Story of Puerto López
This article addresses the social implications of fishers leaving activities connected with small-scale fisheries, with an emphasis on food sovereignty.
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A Post-Wilderness National Park: Naturecultures of Destruction and Recuperation in the Castlemaine Goldfields
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.
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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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Abandonment Issues: Producing Industrial Heritage Landscapes at the São Domingos Mine
This piece examines the historical context of industrial heritage tourism of the post-industrial landscape at the São Domingos Mine in southeastern Portugal.
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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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Ancestral Outdoorsmen and Historical Hikes
These Boy Scout images, particularly focused on the 1919–1925 era, demonstrate that human labor and history permeated popular American nature ideology and hiking practices at that time.
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Living on Coral Time: Debating Conservation in the Anthropocene
Coral scientists are dealing with an existential crisis and are divided between hope and despair in their approaches to coral conservation.
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The Water Shops of Republican Tianjin
The water shop was a crucial part of the traditional water supply system in imperial and early modern China.
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Unifying the Yangzi Watershed in Early Twentieth-Century China
This article examines early twentieth-century China’s top-down scheme of managing rivers based on watershed.