Multimedia | interviews and talks
Martin Schmid on "An Environmental History of the Danube"
Martin Schmid, Carson Fellow from March to August 2011, speaks about his research project, “An Environmental History of the Danube.”
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"Editorial: New Zealand Environmental Histories"
An introduction to seven articles—five of which are written by current doctoral or recent postdoctoral students—that explore ideas, themes, and methods relating to research in the field in New Zealand.
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“Preface: Beginning with Rome”
George Perkins Marsh chose to open Man and Nature, his magnum opus, with a discussion of the environmental decline and fall of the Roman Empire…
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Landscapes
Explores the conceptualization of environments as landscape, philosophically and historically.
Multimedia | book, full-text
A Rugged Nation: Mountains and the Making of Modern Italy
The nationalization of Italian mountains has been a story of military conquest and resistance, ecological and social transformation, expropriating resources and imposing meanings…
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The Third Dimension: A Comparative History of Mountains in the Modern Era
This book considers the variegated world of mountains and their development during the last five hundred years.
Multimedia | interviews and talks
Bao Maohong on "Landscape Transformation in China"
Bao Maohong, Carson Fellow from July to December 2011, talks about his work on landscape transformation in China.
Multimedia | film profile
Libby, Montana
A small town in northwestern Montana is beset by the worst case of community-wide exposure to a toxic substance in US history.
Multimedia | book profile
Building the National Parks: Historic Landscape Design and Construction
A history of constructed and designed landscapes in the United States’ national parks.
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Was wird bleiben? [What will remain?]
Reflects upon the short period of geological time during which humans have inhabited the Earth, raising questions as to how much time the human race may have left on the planet, and what might happen after the human race—and even Earth itself—disappears.