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"Environmental Change and Chronic Famine in Manbhum, Bengal District, 1860-1910"
The present paper examines the chronic occurrence of famine in Manbhum, Bengal District, after the 1860s due to environmental degradation as a result of colonial intervention and an increase in commodity production and the expansion of monoculture.
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"Looking Back to Move Forward: Using History to Understand the Consensual Forest Management Model in the Terai, Nepal"
This paper attempts to explore the historic impacts of forest politics and policy on social equity and ecology in Nepal’s Terai region. It is suggested that past forest politics and policies may continue to influence the forest bureaucracy in Nepal and, hence, shape present-day forest management in the Terai.
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"World Water Day 2012. 'Water and Food Security: The World is Thirsty Because We are Hungry'"
The article reflects on how to feed a growing world population in a context of natural resource scarcity and considers the 2012 World Water Day as a means to open an international debate in order to identify strategic choices capable of combining, globally and locally, the objective of food security with that of water resource protection.
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"'Rather Active Today than Radioactive Tomorrow!' Environmental Justice and the Anti-Nuclear Movement in 1970s Wyhl, West Germany"
This article applies new understandings of environmental justice theory to a specific local case study. It uses a broader conception of environmental justice theory to further our understanding of the rise of the German anti-nuclear movement.
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"The Environmental Impacts of Japan’s Occupation of West Malaysia (1942-45) and its Socio-Economic Implications"
The article examines how the Japanese occupation of Malaysia between 1942 and 1945 highlights the interrelation between war and the natural environment as forming an integral part of the national narrative and global environmentalism.
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International Organizations and Environmental Protection: Conservation and Globalization in the Twentieth Century
International Organizations and Environmental Protection comprehensively explores the environmental activities of professional communities, NGOs, regional bodies, the United Nations, and other international organizations during the twentieth century. It follows their efforts to shape debates about environmental degradation, develop binding intergovernmental commitments, and—following the seminal 1972 Conference on the Human Environment—implement and enforce actual international policies.
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The Upper Guinea Coast in Global Perspective
The Upper Guinea Coast in Global Perspective takes an anthropological approach to Africa’s Upper Guinea Coast. It portrays a historically globalized region which has adapated creatively to major transformations and still remains a major actor within global networks.
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Marshlands, Sanitation Policies, and Epidemic Fevers in Late-Eighteenth-Century Barcelona (1783–1786)
A tertian fever epidemic occurred in Barcelona from 1783 to 1786 and affected approximately one million people.
Arcadia
Small-Scale Fisheries versus Whale-Watching Tourism: The Story of Puerto López
This article addresses the social implications of fishers leaving activities connected with small-scale fisheries, with an emphasis on food sovereignty.