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"Editorial: Letter from Canberra"
As the millennium approaches it seems that environmental historians are increasingly drawn to the task of writing world history…
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"The Origins, Development and Legacy of Scientific Forestry in Cameroon"
The influence of scientific forestry in southwestern Cameroon (today Southwest Province) is examined.
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"Grasslands and Thickets: Bush Encroachment and Herding in the Kalahari Thornveld"
The ‘received wisdom’ is that bushes result from overgrazing, displace the climax community, and lower carrying capacity. In contrast, this paper is informed by non-equilibrium ecological and range management science, as well as recent challenges to degradationist interpretations about environmental change in Africa.
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"The Cultural Enframing of Nature: Environmental Histories during the Early German Romantic Period"
The introduction of histories of nature in the late eighteenth century posed the epistemological problem of how to bring the diversity of empirical laws into theoretical unity…
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"The Conservation and Utilisation of the Natural World: Silviculture in the Cape Colony, c. 1902–1910"
This paper explores the ideology of forest conservation and the evolution of silviculture in the post bellum Cape, as well as the socio-economic impact of these policies, focusing in particular on African populations residing in the Eastern Cape and the impoverished woodcutters from the Knysna Forests.
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"Everything Circulates: Agricultural Chemistry and Recycling Theories in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century"
This paper analyses the arguments in favour of recycling put forth by agricultural chemists in the mid-nineteenth century.
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"Narratives of Rights: Codifying People and Land in Early Nineteenth-Century Nilgiris"
This article analyses how multi-faceted narratives of south Indian people as communities and their rights in land and resources were established in early European reports from the Nilgiris.
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"'The Common Cormorant or Shag Lays Eggs Inside a Paper Bag.' A Cultural Ecology of Fish-eating Birds in Western Australia"
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.
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"Environmental History and the Challenges of Interdisciplinarity: An Antipodean Perspective"
The authors propose and discuss four ‘intersections’ that have potential as loci of interdisciplinary engagement: mutual understanding; spatial scale and locale; time and change; and the environment and agency.
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"Historical Seismology in Switzerland: Reflections on Issues and Insights"
Attempts at combining reconstruction of physical processes with the discursive perceptions of a disaster need an interdisciplinary approach. Current discussions in cultural science have heightened the sensitivity of historians, leading them to seek and elaborate new models and to establish contact with scientific disciplines…