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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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Resources and Revolution: Mexico’s Iztaccíhuatl and Popocatépetl National Park
On 8 November 1935, Mexico’s president, Lázaro Cárdenas (1934–1940), established the Iztaccíhuatl and Popocatépetl National Park, the first of nearly forty national parks he would create within the next few years. By 1940, Mexico had more parks than any other country in the world.
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From Wilderness to Breeding Farms: The Domestication of the Chinchilla lanigera
When Mathias Chapman opened his first chinchilla breeding farm in Southern California, he also saved the fur trade industry.
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Threats to the Hadzabe and Why We Should Care
A look at the sociopolitical and environmental threats facing the Hadzabe hunter-gatherers in the Eyasi Basin, Tanzania.
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River Rights at Rockhampton (a Rhetoric)
Rivers need property rights so that humans can live with floods.
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Memories from the Disaster in 2004 of the Ship Vicuña
The ship accident of Vicuña is considered one of the biggest disasters that occurred on the Brazilian coast of Paraná, Brazil.
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Poles of Exploration and Exploitation: Olaudah Equiano in the Arctic
This essay proposes that Olaudah Equiano’s account of a 1773 Arctic voyage doubles as a critique of exploration and exploitation.
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Freshwater Fish Invasion as Deliberate Neglect: Unpacking Multispecies Colonialism in West Papua
Indonesian state experts introduced invasive species into West Papua, a deliberate ecological disruption that advances a colonial agenda disguised as development.
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The Sierra Nevada Still in Peril
Introduces a short-lived Forest Service framework for landscape-based land management and wildland fire management in California’s Sierra Nevada from the 1990s.