Gary Martin on "The Adaption of Local Knowledge Societies and Systems to Global Change"
Gary Martin talks about his research, which draws on case studies that he has developed through the Global Diversity Foundation (GDF) over the last decade.
Gary Martin talks about his research, which draws on case studies that he has developed through the Global Diversity Foundation (GDF) over the last decade.
Jocelyn Thorpe, currently an assistant professor of women’s studies at Memorial University of Newfoundland, talks about her work on the social construction of the Temagami region as a wilderness area and its implications for the Teme-Augama Anishnabai.
Conservation Song explores ways in which colonial relations shaped meanings and conflicts over environmental control and management in Malawi. By focusing on soil conservation, which required an integrated approach to the use and management of such natural resources as land, water, and forestry, it examines the origins and effects of policies and their legacies in the post-colonial era.
The aim of the present study is to investigate changes in the channel morphology and land use of the lower part of the Dyje River floodplain as a result of river engineering works.
The article analyzes the interaction between security and environment in the Mediterranean, focusing on the paradigmatic example of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict over water resources in the Jordan River basin.
A review of a Russian language volume published by the Russian Institute of Cultural and Natural Heritage, and with a forward by the then director of UNESCO’s World Heritage Centre Francesco Bandarin. The book covers approaches to cultural landscapes, as well as to their conservation and management.
This study examines the debates on, and processes of, land reform in Zimbabwe during the independence era, exploring the social, economic, and political contexts of perceptions of land redistribution and management.
This fourth issue continues the journal’s exploration of the scientific paradigms of global environmental history.
Using case studies from Austria and Kansas, this paper compares the socioecological structures of the agricultural communities immigrants left to those that they found and created on the other side of the Atlantic.
A collection of essays that explore the “paper landscapes” of the colonial literature and archives in search of the real environmental history of Indonesia.