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"A transformed Landscape: The Steppes of Ukraine and Russia"
David Moon talks about his visit to the Ukrainian steppes.
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Otzenrath 3° kälter [Strange Homeland]
Jens Schanze documents the impact on the residents of Otzenrath, a seven hundred-year-old village in North-Rhine Westphalia, following their relocation in order to make way for the Garzweiler II open-pit, brown coal mine.
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“Introduction,” in “Trans-Tasman Forest History special issue.” Special issue, Environment and History 14, no. 4 (November 2008).
An introduction to the seven papers in this issue of Environment and History. The papers are based on presentations to the seventh conference of the Australian Forest History Society, held early in 2007 in Christchurch, New Zealand.
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Landscapes
Explores the conceptualization of environments as landscape, philosophically and historically.
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Enclosing Water: Nature and Political Economy in a Mediterranean Valley, 1796–1916
An environmental history of the Industrial Revolution, as inscribed on the Liri valley in Italy’s Central Apennines.
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A Rugged Nation: Mountains and the Making of Modern Italy
The nationalization of Italian mountains has been a story of military conquest and resistance, ecological and social transformation, expropriating resources and imposing meanings…
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The Third Dimension: A Comparative History of Mountains in the Modern Era
This book considers the variegated world of mountains and their development during the last five hundred years.
Multimedia | interviews and talks
Bao Maohong on "Landscape Transformation in China"
Bao Maohong, Carson Fellow from July to December 2011, talks about his work on landscape transformation in China.
Multimedia | interviews and talks
Stephen Bell on "The Transformation of Land Use in Brazil"
Stephen Bell, Carson Fellow from June to August 2011, talks about his research concerning the the transformation of land use in Brazil.
Multimedia | interviews and talks
Paul Josephson on "An Environmental History of the Soviet Arctic"
Paul Josephson discusses the project he worked on during his Carson Fellowship, from August to December 2011: an environmental history of the Soviet Arctic.