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"The Grey Seal in Britain: A Twentieth Century History of a Nature Conservation Success"
This article examines the complex history of the grey seal problem in Britain since 1914.
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"Nature, Progress and the 'Disorderly' Fitzroy: The Vain Quest for Queensland's 'Noblest Navigable River', 1865–1965"
This article focuses on attempts, some experimental but all ultimately unsuccessful, to render Queensland’s Fitzroy River suitable for large-scale shipping by constructing ‘training’ walls and dredging intensively.
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“‘Wilderness to Orchard’: The Export Apple Industry in Nelson, New Zealand 1908–1940”
The orchard is suggestive of the ways in which commercial apple growing was represented as an idealised lifestyle linking rural economy and nature…
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"Lesniki and Leskhozy: Life and Work in Russia's Northern Forests"
This paper examines the history of forestry in the Russian North through a study area in the North Urals.
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"Alpine Milk: Dairy Farming as a Pre-modern Strategy of Land Use"
This paper shows how the story of Alpine milk illustrates that in premodern times food production reflected much more the connection between local land resources and farmer’s skills, tools, and practices—a link that has ceased to exist in the mindset of industrialised societies.
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"Hugh Cleghorn and Forest Conservancy in India"
This paper examines the important and pioneering role played by Dr. Hugh Cleghorn, a Scottish medical surgeon, in the implementation of forest conservancy in colonial India.
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"'A Convulsed and Magic Country:' Tourism and Resource Histories in the Mexican Caribbean"
This paper argues that far from having been an empty space, much of the area currently devoted to tourism once played an important role within global markets, especially through the production of dyewoods, chicle (the original raw material for chewing gum), and other natural resources.
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"How the Coast Became High: An Historical Introduction to the High Coast (Hoega kusten) World Heritage Site in Sweden"
The High Coast in north-eastern Sweden has become a popular tourist site annually attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors from throughout the world. Its environment is not only considered pleasing from a recreational aspect, but also of extraordinary intrinsic value.
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"Antecedents to the Community Wildlife Conservation Programme in Kenya, 1946–1964"
While the evolution of community wildlife conservation in the country from the late 1970s tends to be portrayed as a programme without antecedents, this paper demonstrates that attempts to involve Africans in wildlife conservation in Kenya have a long history.