"Campaigning for Street Trees, Sydney Botanic Gardens, 1890s–1920s"
Between the 1890s and 1920s street trees became a more prominent feature in streetscapes across New South Wales, Australia.
Between the 1890s and 1920s street trees became a more prominent feature in streetscapes across New South Wales, Australia.
In this paper, Pacheco illustrates the dynamics of frontier development in the Redenção area in southern Pará, one of the oldest agricultural frontiers in the Brazilian Amazon.
Scrubland grazing by the omnivorous goat could reduce the risk of widespread fires. But goat populations have been controlled by bans and restrictions for many centuries. The political, economic and cultural reasons why the animal had such an unsavoury reputation are explored.
David Moon talks about his visit to the Ukrainian steppes.
The nationalization of Italian mountains has been a story of military conquest and resistance, ecological and social transformation, expropriating resources and imposing meanings…
Paul Josephson discusses the project he worked on during his Carson Fellowship, from August to December 2011: an environmental history of the Soviet Arctic.
A sobering contribution to the food versus fuel debate and an equally poignant exposé of the human and environmental impacts of European policy on biofuels.
An edited collection investigating the history of forestry in the United States from the nineteenth century onward.
This film shows how farming, state, and business and finance interrelate, such that various forms of malnutrition continue to pose a risk that is often life threatening, even in times of overproduction.
“Cooperating with nature, instead of fighting nature. To observe nature and ascertain which plants support one another.” These are key concepts for organic farmer Sepp Holzer and the founding principles of permaculture.