Paul Josephson discusses the project he worked on during his Carson Fellowship, from August to December 2011: an environmental history of the Soviet Arctic.
For nearly a century, we have relied increasingly on science and technology to harness natural forces, but at what environmental and social cost?
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 episode of a four-part documentary series reveals the struggles of how two indigenous communities, in Russia’s Republic of Altai and in California, are resisting government mega-projects.
The purpose of this article is to assess recent trends in Russian environmental history over the last five years. The author broadly traces its emergence from the foundation of the field in the 1970s and 1980s.
