This paper analyses the arguments in favour of recycling put forth by agricultural chemists in the mid-nineteenth century.
The general view in Swedish historiography of an inherent conflict between iron-making and the practice of slash-and-burn is questioned on the basis of this palaeoecological case study of repeated slash-and-burn cultivation from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries in a mining district of central Sweden.
This paper focuses on historical analysis of the local management of the Brazilian Amazonian floodplain.
The authors present a comprehensive analysis of marine mammal utilisation for Trinidad and Tobago.
This paper builds a history of the rise of ecological awareness of the Swan River in Perth, Western Australia through the cultural perceptions of fish-eating birds.
The authors propose and discuss four ‘intersections’ that have potential as loci of interdisciplinary engagement: mutual understanding; spatial scale and locale; time and change; and the environment and agency.
During the 1840s, the biometric approach to soil fertility appraisal was found to be a false one, and was replaced by a developing ecological one, which relied on specific plant indicators of soil fertility.
This paper explores some routes into the history of plant transfers, especially during the period of European imperialism.
From travellers’ accounts, Duarte discusses the conditions of exploration, and some aspects of the historical changes that took place in the territory.
This paper argues that Marsh was not simply influenced by American versus European contrasts in environmental change, nor was his work based only on conservation ideas, being influenced also by the examples of acclimatisation movements within the British empire settlement colonies.
