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Dirty Paradise
This is the story of the Wayana people in French Amazonia, whose future is threatened following the arrival of gold miners.
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Wälder der Hoffnung [Forests of Hope]
Intended to address the alarming rate of deforestation worldwide, this series documents the efforts of indigenous peoples across the globe to find alternatives to exploitative and destructive forest practices.
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“The Nature-Culture Trap: A Critique of Late 20th Century Global Paradigms of Environmental Change in Africa and Beyond”
The modernization, the declinist, and the inclinist paradigms of the late twentieth century, despite their differences, all tended to frame environmental change in a unilinear Nature-to-Culture fashion, which in turn entailed homogenizing the agency, process, and outcome of environmental change. This article examines the characteristics of each paradigm, as well as some of the paradoxes that have arisen in their wake. Finally, it looks to alternative approaches.
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"Poverty in the Gwai Forest Reserve, Zimbabwe: 1880–1953"
This study examines the role of colonial foresters in introducing new socioeconomic arrangements that resulted in increased poverty among the Tonga, Shona, and Ndebele communities in the Gwai Forest Reserve of North-Western Matabeleland, Zimbabwe.
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“Environmental History, Traditional Populations, and Paleo-Territories in the Brazilian Atlantic Coastal Forest”
This article examines the long-term anthropogenic factors that have affected the Atlantic Coastal Forest.
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"The Impact of River Engineering Works on the Dyje River Floodplain in the Czech Republic"
The aim of the present study is to investigate changes in the channel morphology and land use of the lower part of the Dyje River floodplain as a result of river engineering works.
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"The Introduction of Historical and Cultural Values in the Sustainable Management of European Forests"
A summary of a document produced for the Ministerial Conference on the Protection of Forests in Europe.
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Review of Situating Environmental History, edited by Ranjan Chakrabarti
Debojyoti Das’s review of an environmental history reader containing essays by Karl Jacoby, Alok Kumar Ghosh, Arun Bandopadhyay, Archana Prasad, Vinita Damodaran, Ritajyoti Bandhopadhyay, Kaushik Roy, Arabinda Samanta, Amal Das, Sahara Ahmed, Jagdish N. Sinha, Sumit Guha, Rita Pemberton, Lawrence G. Gundersen, and Tridib Chakraborty.
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"Reconstructing the History of Forestry in Northwestern China, 1949–98"
Using Hui county as a case study, this paper reconstructs the history of forestry and the changing patterns of forest tenure rights in the northwestern province of Gansu in 1949–1998.
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Review of From Rainforest to Cane Field in Cuba: An Environmental History since 1492 by Reinaldo Funes Monzote
A review of the revised English translation, published 2008, of the prize-winning Spanish original De bosque a sabana: azúcar, deforestación y medio ambiente en Cuba, 1492–1926 (2004).