Multimedia | film profile
Die Biosprit-Lüge [The Biofuel Myth]
A sobering contribution to the food versus fuel debate and an equally poignant exposé of the human and environmental impacts of European policy on biofuels.
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Multimedia | journal article
"Environmental Change and Chronic Famine in Manbhum, Bengal District, 1860-1910"
The present paper examines the chronic occurrence of famine in Manbhum, Bengal District, after the 1860s due to environmental degradation as a result of colonial intervention and an increase in commodity production and the expansion of monoculture.
Multimedia | film profile
Amazonia Eterna
This award-winning documentary sheds new and positive insight on the importance of indigenous knowledge for conservation and how indigenous commerce could save the mighty Amazon rainforest.
Arcadia
The Bears’ Famous Invasion of Novaya Zemlya
Polar bears invade Russian archipelago and town in Novaya Zemlya, northern Russia.
Arcadia
A Post-Wilderness National Park: Naturecultures of Destruction and Recuperation in the Castlemaine Goldfields
Once a denuded gold mining landscape, now a National Heritage Park, this place is site of emerging environmental histories of post-colonizing, post-mining lands.
Multimedia | book excerpt
The Life, Extinction, and Rebreeding of Quagga Zebras: Significance for Conservation
A book on the extinct quagga, a pony-sized zebra that inhabited southern Africa.
Multimedia | book excerpt
Profit: An Environmental History
Book excerpt from Profit by former Rachel Carson Center fellow Mark Stoll.
Arcadia
Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve and Haida Heritage Site
A fierce land-use dispute evolved over the temperate rainforests of the Haida Gwaii Islands in British Columbia, Canada, in 1974.
Multimedia | book, full-text
Strata: Deserts Past, Present and Future. An Environmental Art Project about a Significant Cultural Place
With reference to Puritjarra, a rock shelter in the Cleland Hills in western central Australia, this environmental art project examines the relationship between knowledge systems–be they indigenous, scientific, or artistic–and place.