Ukraine and Camels: Features of the Incorporation into the Steppe Landscape
This Arcadia article is about how camels used, until recently, to be a central feature of the steppe landscape of Southern Ukraine.
This Arcadia article is about how camels used, until recently, to be a central feature of the steppe landscape of Southern Ukraine.
This collection highlights three quintessentially Canadian themes: seasonality, links between mobility and natural resource development, and urbanites’ experiences of the environment through mobility. It divides the intersection of environmental and mobility history into two approaches. The chapters in the first section deal primarily with the construction and productive use of mobility technologies and infrastructure, as well as their environmental constraints and consequences. The chapters in the second section focus on consumers’ uses of those vehicles and pathways: on pleasure travel, tourism, and recreational mobility.
Zhen Wang’s photo essay explores in detail how nearly 40 years of urbanization and rapid economic development have transformed the past, present, and future of the Yi population and of China’s rural and cultural landscapes.