Arcadia
Lahar Meets Locomotive: New Zealand’s Tangiwai Railway Disaster of Christmas Eve 1953
The Tangiwai disaster of 1953, New Zealand’s worst railway accident, is an environmental disaster with an enduring legacy.
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Tuberculosis in Echuca, and the Therapeutic Migration to Southeastern Australia (1889–1908)
In the nineteenth century, tuberculous individuals could travel from Europe to Echuca, Australia, in search of a cure.
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Making a Green Machine: The Infrastructure of Beverage Container Recycling
Finn Arne Jørgensen examines the development of the Scandinavian beverage container deposit-refund system, which has the highest return rates in the world, from 1970 to the present day. He reveals the challenges faced when the system was exported internationally and explores the critical role of technological infrastructures and consumer convenience in modern recycling.
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The Qianlong Emperor Hunting Hare: From the Qing Esthetics of Nature to an End of European Exceptionalism
This article proposes a new definition of baroque to better understand the global dimensions of the representation of nature by the Qing dynasty.
Perspectives
Sites of Remembering: Landscapes, Lessons, Policies
This volume explores the potential contribution memory studies can make to policymaking, in particular on conservation and disaster resilience.
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Using Historical Storms for Flood Risk Management: The 1872 Storm in South Sweden
Fredriksson et al. discuss the relationship between flood risk management and collective memory.
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Remembering and Igniting Fires: Prescribed Burns as Memory Work
Sutherland explores the practice of controlled burning in Canadian national parks.
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Memory as Claim-making in Kalahari Socio-environments
LaRocco examines how the San people of Botswana use memory as a form of claim-making to contest their marginal position.
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Landscape and Change in Policy: Understanding Cultural Values
Bolton explores how Natural England creates landscape management plans in partnership with local communities.
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Can Public Policy Perpetuate the Memory of Disasters?
Colten and Grismore examine the Amite River flood in August 2016 against the backdrop of collective flood memory and public policy.