Arcadia
Droughts and Scarcity before Independence in the Viceroyalty of New Granada, 1800–1810
Droughts, high prices, and scarcity of food affected New Granada in the first decade of nineteenth century.
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Multimedia | journal article
"Population, Land Use and Environmental Impacts in Shucheng County, Anhui Province, China during the Ming and Qing Dynasties"
The authors take Shucheng County as a case study to reconstruct the variations of population and land use in the last 500 years, and to examine their influence on the environmental changes in this region.
Arcadia
Water, Firewood, and Disease in Nineteenth-Century Istanbul
This article looks at extreme droughts in Istanbul to understand the nineteenth-century changes in the Ottoman State.
Multimedia | interviews and talks
Lajos Racz on "An Environmental History of Hungary"
Lajos Rácz, Carson Fellow from June 2010 to June 2011, talks about his research project, “An Environmental History of Hungary.”
Multimedia | book profile
Roundtable Review of Fixing the Sky by James R. Fleming
If climate change mitigation through political agreement has no hope of succeeding, does it make sense to tinker with the climate?
Multimedia | book, full-text
In Catastrophic Times: Resisting the Coming Barbarism
In Catastrophic Times: Resisting the Coming Barbarism warns the reader about the possibility that we have already entered a catastrophic time, determined by the apparently uncontrollable impact of anthropogenic activities and the incapability of governments and authorities to respond effectively.
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“How Unusual Was Autumn 2006 in Europe?”
Autumn 2006 was by far the warmest autumn on record in the United Kingdom, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland.
Multimedia | podcast
Interview with Amelia Moore, author of Destination Anthropocene
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Amelia Moore is interviewed on her new book, Destination Anthropocene: Science and Tourism in The Bahamas.
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“Human Overpopulation: The Elephant in the Greenhouse”
In this Springs article, professor Helen Tiffin considers the role of human overpopulation in the environmental crisis.
Perspectives
Whose Anthropocene? Revisiting Dipesh Chakrabarty’s “Four Theses”
In “The Climate of History: Four Theses,” Dipesh Chakrabarty examined the idea of the Anthropocene—the dawn of a new geological period dominated by human activities—in the context of history and philosophy, raising fundamental questions about how we think historically in an era when human and geological timescales are colliding.This volume of RCC Perspectives offers critiques of these “Four Theses” by scholars of environmental history, political philosophy, religious studies, literary criticism, environmental planning, geography, law, biology, and geology.