Two graphs covering the last 420,000 years. One indicates the concentration of CO2 in the earth’s atmosphere, the other fluctuation in the average temperature on earth. Both include predictions for the remainder of the twenty-first century.
An early example of French historian Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie’s work on the impact of climate change on human history.
The majority of articles in this issue of Environment and History shed some light on the relationship between colonialism and the environment and on colonial constructions of nature.
The science of palynology has proved to be a good tool to reconstruct the past, to build up archaeological scenarios and to record climatic changes during the Holocene period. However, the terms employed to denote climate, like arid and humid, are often used without proper definitions, ignoring intricacies of climate…
This paper discusses changes in land and vegetation cover and natural resources of the Cape Verde Islands since their colonisation by the Portuguese around 1460.
This issue of Environment and History completes a third year of the new journal, and presents a useful opportunity for reflection about the state of the discipline.
Ringbarking, as a means of destroying trees, was known and practised from the earliest years of British settlement in New South Wales…
Research on climatic variations in the sixteenth century has stressed the exceptionality of extreme events, but the case of the lower Po basin, where lack of instrumental data renders the concept of exceptionality complex and relative, shows that this is not necessarily valid.
As the millennium approaches it seems that environmental historians are increasingly drawn to the task of writing world history…
This paper traces the history of human-environment interactions in the Pacific Islands during the last millennium, focusing on three main periods: the Little Climatic Optimum, the Little Ice Age, and, in greatest detail, the transition around AD 1300 between the two.
