Read the introduction to The Routledge Handbook of Environmental History.

Synthesizing ethnographic case studies from mainland Southeast Asia, the authors critically review the implementation of REDD+, a UN project to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation. They argue that REDD+ maps onto local power structures and political economies in its implementation, rendering it blunt as a tool for change.

Economic historian Paolo Malanima reviews a work of ambitious scale by geographer Ian Gordon Simmons.