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Links Between State Power and Tree Species: Black Locust in Central Europe
The historical politicization of the invasive black locust in Hungary.
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Only One Earth: Stockholm and the Beginning of Modern Environmental Diplomacy
The 1972 UN Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm marked a watershed in the evolution of humanity’s relationship with the earth and global concern about the environment. While most of the conference’s accomplishments were mainly rhetorical, its ultimate success was that environmental policy became a universal concern within international diplomacy. Sweden, as the host country, played no minor role in achieving this outcome.
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The Bears Are Back! The LIFE Ursus Translocation Project in Trentino
This Arcadia article by environmental historian Wilko von Hardenberg shows how after almost a century on the brink of extinction, bears are once again roaming the eastern Italian Alps.
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Conservation and Forestry in the American Tropics: John Clayton Gifford in Puerto Rico
Ian Tyrrell recounts the debate between forestry and conservation in a colonial setting that led to the establishment of Luquillo National Forest in Puerto Rico in 1907.
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Sustainability and the Origins of Wildland Fire Research
At the 1873 annual meeting of AAAS, Franklin B. Hough argued for protection of America’s forests and conducted the first national investigation of wildland fire.
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Land Subsidence and the Reservoirs of the Washburn Valley
Water management can have profound effects upon the landscape.
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Urban Horticulture in Modena, Italy, 1980–2015
In 1980, Modena was the first city in Italy to introduce a law recognizing social urban allotments.
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An Unnatural History of Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge, Colorado
Exploring the cultural and environmental transformation of Rocky Flats from military industrial complex to protected habitat.
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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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“Moby Dick” in the Rhine: How a Beluga Whale Raised Awareness of Water Pollution in West Germany
In 1966, a stray beluga whale swimming up and down the polluted Lower Rhine caught the media’s attention in West Germany.