“War and Natural Resources in History: Introduction”
This paper examines how natural resources have been an important motive, target, and resource for warfare throughout human history.
This paper examines how natural resources have been an important motive, target, and resource for warfare throughout human history.
This study draws on economic and environmental historical approaches to explore the consumption-conservation nexus in the use of African natural resources. It explores environmental changes resulting from a range of interactive factors, including climate, population, disease, vegetation and technology.
Hausmüll documents the rise of a “new” environmental problem in post-war Germany, that of an increase in consumption and consequently a dramatic increase in waste.
This joint presentation by Varro Laszlo and Stefan Pfenninger for the ESC Symposium 2017: Global Energy Challenge provides a framework to understand the economics behind energy consumption in the past, present, and future.
This volume of Perspectives offers case studies of energy transitions within everyday environments over the last two centuries, from Europe to South Asia, to North and Latin America.
Taylor and Chappells examine changing material cultures of energy in Britain and Canada.
Ruth Sandwell examines people’s energy-related experiences in the transition from the organic to the mineral fuel regime in Canada.
Odinn Melsted traces Reykjavík’s transition from coal to geothermal energy.
In this article, Sarah Strauss and Carrick Eggleston track the transition to renewable energy in the village of Auroville in South India.
This volume of Perspectives offers a collection of largely untold stories that demonstrate women’s agency in energy transitions.