An introduction to the essays in this special issue, which provide new perspectives on local as well as state and international environmental politics, and their interactions.
As the south coast of New South Wales moved from relative isolation and a declining pastoral economy to being an area of rapid growth, it also become the site for a range of national environmental and indigenous rights controversies…
This paper analyses the turning-point in attitudes to the most distinctive feature of one nation’s indigenous environment.
The paper asks, what historical conditions made it possible to conceive of hydro technical engineering in moral categories?
This article argues that during the interwar period in Australia, contrary to assertions that social, political and economic pressures stifled environmental debate, there were a wide range of interests pushing for conservation, the development of National Parks and limits on development schemes.
Tourists are in a liminal position, on the verge of reality, and they need to communicate the success of this borderline experience back home.
The Circeo National Park was created in 1934 as a propaganda tool to serve as a reminder of how the area looked during the Roman Empire. In fact, the area had been radically modified by Fascist land-reclamation policies and practices.
On 8 November 1935, Mexico’s president, Lázaro Cárdenas (1934–1940), established the Iztaccíhuatl and Popocatépetl National Park, the first of nearly forty national parks he would create within the next few years. By 1940, Mexico had more parks than any other country in the world.
The photo exhibition “Our Only World,” opened at the Smithsonian Institution in 1974, is conceivably the first example of a photo exhibition in which a national government consciously employed photographic eco-images to emphasize the complexity of environmentalism and to sanction specific behavioral patterns.
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.
