Today, the Storm Flood of 1962 forms an integral part of local and national memory culture. Public commemoration events, monuments, and media coverage assure that the disaster is not forgotten.
With reference to Puritjarra, a rock shelter in the Cleland Hills in western central Australia, this environmental art project examines the relationship between knowledge systems–be they indigenous, scientific, or artistic–and place.
A report by the Ministry of Environment and Forests, India, on securing a future for Gajah (the elephant) in India, its continued survival in the wild and its humane care in captivity.
The German historian Nils Freytag traces the development of environmental history in Germany, paying special attention to forests and hunting, urban environments, and links to cultural history.
An animated Disney film featuring the Seven Dwarves, showing various methods of combating the transmission of malaria by Anopheles mosquitoes.
Examines the relationship between the mass consumption of a tropical commodity (bananas) in the United States, and environmental and social change in Honduras during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
With over 25 percent of its land set aside in national parks and other protected areas, Costa Rica is renowned worldwide as “the green republic.” Sterling Evans explores the establishment of the country’s national park system.
Gabriella Corona in conversation with Piero Bevilacqua, Guillermo Castro, Ranjan Chakrabarti, Kobus du Pisani, John R. McNeill, and Donald Worster.
An early example of French historian Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie’s work on the impact of climate change on human history.
A comparative analysis of the reception of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring in the United States and in the UK.
