This edited volume takes the reader on an intellectual journey at the frontlines across global South and global North where climate breakdown meets social innovations.
The Indian government’s support for hybrid rice led to widescale deforestation in central India, disrupting Indigenous foodways based around the production and consumption of millets.
In the nineteenth century, a water crisis in Rio de Janeiro resulted in the planting of forests, influencing the development of Brazil’s forestry policy and the emergence of tropical forestry.
A book examining the power of the mistral wind and the ways it has challenged central tenets of nineteenth-century European society.
Donatella de Rita, Carson Fellow from April 2012 until June 2012, speaks about her research project on urban development and the associated hazard in volcanic areas, as well as on geoarcheology.
Peat was a widely used fuel in mid-nineteenth-century Berlin that acted as a bridge in the energy transition between firewood and coal.
