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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.
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Electronic Waste in Guiyu: A City under Change?
Once the largest toxic e-waste dump in the world, government investment in environmentally sustainable recycling has begun to change Guiyu.
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Problematic Postage: Canada’s Claim to the Arctic through a Postage Stamp
In 1955, the Canadian Post Office Department issues a stamp to highlight its effective occupation of the High Arctic.
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About the Exhibition | Neva and Danube Rivers
This exhibition shows some of the many links between the Neva River in St. Petersburg and the Viennese Danube discovered during the joint Russian-Austrian research project “The Long-Term Dynamics of Fish Populations and Ecosystems of European Rivers.”
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The Bears Are Back! The LIFE Ursus Translocation Project in Trentino
This Arcadia article by environmental historian Wilko von Hardenberg shows how after almost a century on the brink of extinction, bears are once again roaming the eastern Italian Alps.
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Urban Horticulture in Modena, Italy, 1980–2015
In 1980, Modena was the first city in Italy to introduce a law recognizing social urban allotments.
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Plague, Paleogenetics, and the Boundaries of the Discipline of History
This article examines the implications of the discussions surrounding the Justinianic Plague for the discipline of history.
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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.
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American Horses for the South African War, 1899–1902
American equines shipped to the South African War suffered conditions like those on slave ships in the transatlantic slave trade.
