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"The Grey Seal in Britain: A Twentieth Century History of a Nature Conservation Success"
This article examines the complex history of the grey seal problem in Britain since 1914.
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"Continuities in Environmental Narratives: The Case of Kabale, Uganda, 1930–2000"
This article looks at continuities and change around the issue of agricultural sustainability in colonial and post-colonial Kabale.
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"Francois Mitterrand and Nature"
With the help of extensive quotations, this paper shows that the writings of Francois Mitterrand contain many professions of his love for nature, and reflections on the bond between man and nature.
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"Environmental Anxiety in New Zealand, 1840–1941: Climate Change, Soil Erosion, Sand Drift, Flooding and Forest Conservation"
The history of environmental anxiety in nineteenth- and twentieth-century New Zealand can be traced by focusing on problems caused by deforestation.
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"Appraising Soil Fertility in Early Colonial New Zealand: The 'Biometric Fallacy' and Beyond"
During the 1840s, the biometric approach to soil fertility appraisal was found to be a false one, and was replaced by a developing ecological one, which relied on specific plant indicators of soil fertility.
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"Empirical Knowledge, Scientific Authority, and Native Development: The Controversy over Sugar/Rice Ecology in the Netherlands East Indies, 1905–1914"
Controversy over the claim that sugar depleted the soil and stunted subsequent rice crops reached a stalemate when both sugar scientists and their critics were accused of selectively choosing evidence according to political bias…
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"Environmental History in Australasia"
Australia and New Zealand share a southern, settler society history, and cultural solidarity as British colonies and dominions. Their early unity as ‘Australasia’ is where this paper begins, focusing on the strong role of science in shaping environmental history and policy in both countries.
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"Hugh Cleghorn and Forest Conservancy in India"
This paper examines the important and pioneering role played by Dr. Hugh Cleghorn, a Scottish medical surgeon, in the implementation of forest conservancy in colonial India.
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"If John Muir Had Been an Agrarian: American Environmental History West and South"
Environmental history in and of the American South has developed in a different direction than the field in general in the United States, which has been shaped by its origins in the history of the American West.
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"Deforestation, Forest Transitions, and Institutions for Sustainability in Southeastern Mexico, 1900–2000"
This paper aims (1) to contribute to a nuanced history of forest change in southeastern Mexico; and (2) to explore the role of institutional development in reducing deforestation rates.