This issue of Environment and History completes a third year of the new journal, and presents a useful opportunity for reflection about the state of the discipline.
In Catastrophic Times: Resisting the Coming Barbarism warns the reader about the possibility that we have already entered a catastrophic time, determined by the apparently uncontrollable impact of anthropogenic activities and the incapability of governments and authorities to respond effectively.
Autumn 2006 was by far the warmest autumn on record in the United Kingdom, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland.
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Amelia Moore is interviewed on her new book, Destination Anthropocene: Science and Tourism in The Bahamas.
In this Springs article, professor Helen Tiffin considers the role of human overpopulation in the environmental crisis.
A monograph on the history of dunes.
This film explores how various communities around the world are transitioning to a more sustainable and local way of life.
In this special issue on Disempowering Democracies, Gretchen M. Walters and Melis Ece analyze the project development negotiations in a World Bank-led REDD+ capacity building regional project, involving six Central African countries between 2008 and 2011. It explores how the project created a “negotiation table” constituted of national and regional institutions recognized by the donors and governments, and how this political space, influenced by global, regional and national political agendas, led to “instances” of recognition and misrecognition among negotiating parties.
Book profile for Provincialising Nature: Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Politics of the Environment in Latin America by Michela Coletta and Malayna Raftopoulos.
This comic The Urban Planet: How Cities Save Our Future condenses into an illustrated story the fundamental findings of Humanity on the Move: Unlocking the Transformative Power of Cities, a report published by the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU).
