This paper attempts to demonstrate the nature of human impact on forest cover and flooding in the Annecy Petit Lac Catchment in pre-Alpine Haute Savoie, France, between 1730 and 2000.
The history of environmental anxiety in nineteenth- and twentieth-century New Zealand can be traced by focusing on problems caused by deforestation.
The article argues that diversified subsistence and a high degree of flexibility were essential for ancient Mesopotamian societies to absorb the many risks that life in this marginal semiarid environment involved.
Why do we continue to talk about the debate over global warming as if it were a scientific controversy?
If climate change mitigation through political agreement has no hope of succeeding, does it make sense to tinker with the climate?
In this book Mark Carey identifies glacial retreat as a historical reality that has played a substantial role in the political, economic, and social dramas of South America.
The Polynesian community of Takuu, a tiny low-lying atoll in the South Western Pacific, experiences the devastating effects of climate change first-hand.
Economic historian Paolo Malanima reviews a work of ambitious scale by geographer Ian Gordon Simmons.
Covers the content of this issue’s analysis of modern environmental systems, and how these systems have changed over time.
The first in a projected series of video installations that seeks to explore the environmental humanities as a scholarly domain of growing significance.
