Wild Earth 5, no. 2
Wild Earth 5, no. 2 discusses the environmental consequences of having a baby in the United States; bumblebee ecology; and the Nevada Biodiversity Research and Conservation Initiative.
Wild Earth 5, no. 2 discusses the environmental consequences of having a baby in the United States; bumblebee ecology; and the Nevada Biodiversity Research and Conservation Initiative.
Wild Earth 13, no. 1, features essays that present contrasting views on mountain biking in the wilderness, the Clovis culture and origins of ecological awareness, as well as the National Wilderness Preservation System and wilderness abuse.
This article looks at how the ongoing processes of border-making are experienced and negotiated by the ethnic minorities who live in the Himalayan mountain peripheries.
Between 1981 and 1992 the Austrian federal states of Carinthia, Salzburg, and Tyrol established the Hohe Tauern National Park as Austria’s first national park in the Alpine mountain range of the same name.
Situated on the Polish-Slovak border, the Tatra Mountains are protected by two neighboring National Parks. The history of the parks, which began in the 1880s, is deeply marked by the situation of these mountains on an imperial, and subsequently national, borderland.
This issue of RCC Perspectives uses mountains as a common denominator around which to discuss overarching challenges of environmental history: challenges relating not only to mountain landscapes, but also to broader questions of sources, methods, cross-cultural research, project scale, and audience. Each author discusses some of their most intriguing discoveries, resulting in a brief and diverse collection of environmental history snapshots.
Using the example of mountains in South America, this article illustrates how different ways of thinking about scale can shape the questions we ask.
A cross-cultural dialogue on the cultural and environmental history of mountains in China.
A reflection on the challenges of doing environmental history research in the diverse region of the Himalayas.
This essay addresses the challenges of collecting and interpreting data for environmental history in East Africa’s highlands.