Marshlands, Sanitation Policies, and Epidemic Fevers in Late-Eighteenth-Century Barcelona (1783–1786)
A tertian fever epidemic occurred in Barcelona from 1783 to 1786 and affected approximately one million people.
A tertian fever epidemic occurred in Barcelona from 1783 to 1786 and affected approximately one million people.
This volume explores the potential contribution memory studies can make to policymaking, in particular on conservation and disaster resilience.
Fourth chapter of Ricardo Rozzi et al.’s virtual exhibition, From Hand Lenses to Telescopes: Exploring the Microcosm and Macrocosm in Chile’s Biocultural Laboratories.
Tathagat Bhatia’s “A Few Hazy Anthropocenes” is a skilfully controlled reflection on haze as both a form of air pollution and a metaphor for the uncertainty of our times. It was one of the two honorable mentions in the nonfiction category of the RCC environmental writing competition “Tell the Untold!”
This article looks at extreme droughts in Istanbul to understand the nineteenth-century changes in the Ottoman State.
A poetic descent into illness parallels a whale fall, uncovering beauty, vulnerability, and new forms of living.
Lajos Rácz, Carson Fellow from June 2010 to June 2011, talks about his research project, “An Environmental History of Hungary.”
If climate change mitigation through political agreement has no hope of succeeding, does it make sense to tinker with the climate?
Coral scientists are dealing with an existential crisis and are divided between hope and despair in their approaches to coral conservation.