This essay considers medieval long distance trades in grain, cattle, and preserved fish as antecedents to today’s globalised movements of foodstuffs.
In this article whaling and walrus hunting and their impact on the environment is reconstructed. Annual catch records and shipping logs made it possible to calculate the original size of the populations and to reconstruct their original migration in the Greenland Sea.
This paper builds a history of the rise of ecological awareness of the Swan River in Perth, Western Australia through the cultural perceptions of fish-eating birds.
Donald Worster, Carson Fellow from February to July 2011, talks about his research concerning the impact of the discovery of the New World and its resources, both on Western Europe, and the American way of life.
For nearly a century, we have relied increasingly on science and technology to harness natural forces, but at what environmental and social cost?
A well-recorded instance of medieval conflict over aquatic resources, in this case the rich salmon fisheries of medieval Scotland, highlights the historic importance of this resource and incidentally documents technical and social elements of its exploitation.
Traces the changing relationships between the fish resources and the people of the Great Lakes region.
This documentary examines the risks of farming transgenic salmon.
This collection of essays examines the history of human interaction with forest and marine ecosystems in Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines, where many of the contributors have conducted fieldwork.
