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Rachel Carson Scholarship—Where Next?
Maril Hazlett calls for a more critical and nuanced reassessment of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, examining both its impact and its limitations in reaching diverse sectors of society.
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Making Tracks: Human and Environmental Histories
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.
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The Future of Environmental History: Needs and Opportunities
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.
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Lucky Forks
Edmund Russell recounts his interdisciplinary approach to environmental history, combining biology and historical analysis.
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Against Discipline
Anthony Carrigan reflects on his resistance to conventional academic structures and his turn towards literature and environmental humanities.
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The I in Interdisciplinary Studies
Cheryl Lousley examines the role of interdisciplinarity in environmental studies, emphasizing its necessity for addressing complex ecological problems.
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Cultural Encounters in the Name of Biology
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.
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Environmental Anthropoligist-cum-Environmental Historian: Listening to the Mermaids
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.
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All that is Solid: Castlereagh 1999
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.
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Far Away, So Close
Claudia Leal reflects on her intellectual formation through childhood travels in Colombia and later work in education and biodiversity conservation.