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"Abruzzo National Park: Land of Dreams"
After centuries of seclusion, Pescasseroli and the upper Sangro River valley in Italy’s central Apennine Mountains began opening to the world in the early twentieth century…
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"Modern Forestry and Enclosure: Elitist State Science against Communal Management and Unrestricted Privatisation in Spain, 1855–1900"
The Spanish Law of common lands reduction (1855) ordered the Forester Corps (Public Works Department) to prepare a survey of grazing lands, scrublands and woodlands to be sold and the ones to be retained…
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"Yorkshire's 'Sloughs of Despond:' An Inter-War Perspective on Resource Development in Britain"
The paper provides a case study of the range of preoccupations which the statutory planner, agricultural interests and mineral developer brought to bear on the conflict arising from the early twentieth-century development of the Yorkshire ‘concealed’ coalfield.
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"Co-Management of Natural Resources: The Long View from Northwestern Spain"
The history of local resource management of forests, water, land, and pastures in the upper Duero basin of Spain from the Reconquest to the liberal administrative reforms of the nineteenth century is discussed.
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"Narratives of Rights: Codifying People and Land in Early Nineteenth-Century Nilgiris"
This article analyses how multi-faceted narratives of south Indian people as communities and their rights in land and resources were established in early European reports from the Nilgiris.
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"The Paradox of Smokeless Fuels: Gas, Coke and the Environment in Britain, 1813–1949"
In Britain, a large proportion of the soil and groundwater pollution that occurred during the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century came from gasworks and coke plants…
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"Draining the Marshlands, Disciplining the Masses: The Linth Valley Hydro Engineering Scheme (1807–1823) and the Genesis of Swiss National Unity"
The paper asks, what historical conditions made it possible to conceive of hydro technical engineering in moral categories?
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"The Historicity of Institutional Trust and the Alienation of Maori Land for Catchment Control at Mangatu, New Zealand"
An historical assessment of a state afforestation project at Mangatu on the east coast of New Zealand demonstrates that Maori have seldom been trusted as environmental guardians.
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"The Provincial Nature of George Perkins Marsh"
While many of Marsh’s novel conservation insights were universal and true for citizens of all countries, his key warnings about degradation were characteristically American—having been interpreted, produced, and packaged by an American for Americans.
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"Human Impact on the Environment in the Annecy Petit Lac Catchment, Haute-Savoie: A Documentary Approach"
This paper uses archaeological and documentary records to look at the human impact on a montane environment, the pre-alps of Savoy, over the long-term, from pre-history up to the pre-modern period.