Otto Andreassen advocates for the utilization of a framework compromising environmental, economic, social, and institutional dimensions to address the multifaceted challenges of the Norwegian salmon farming industry and to achieve a holistic sustainability.
Jenny Price critiques Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring for reinforcing a human–nature divide that shifted environmental responsibility onto individuals while obscuring systemic and institutional accountability.
Perhaps it is a feature of environmental history in particular that our origins and our past stories shape our interests and our fields of enquiry in myriad ways. Many of the “tracks” in this volume are not well-trodden, and they lead us through a landscape that is mutable and as yet uncharted.
The sixteen contributions in this volume of RCC Perspectives offer diverse insights and concerns about the future of the field from those working in environmental history and related disciplines.
Edmund Russell recounts his interdisciplinary approach to environmental history, combining biology and historical analysis.
Anthony Carrigan reflects on his resistance to conventional academic structures and his turn towards literature and environmental humanities.
Cheryl Lousley examines the role of interdisciplinarity in environmental studies, emphasizing its necessity for addressing complex ecological problems.
Eunice Blavascunas explores the environmental history and ethnography of the Białowieża Forest, highlighting the roles of biologists, foresters, and peasant farmers in shaping the forest’s ecology and administrative structures.
Stefan Dorondel writes about agrarian transformations and land-use changes in post-socialist Romania, focusing on the impact of massive social, economic, and political transformations on the natural environment.
Grace Karskens examines the tension between urban development and the preservation of historical and cultural landscapes along Castlereagh Road near the Nepean River in Sydney.
