This exploration of the deepening crisis of food security in India looks at four case studies, dealing respectively with Punjab, Warangal, Kalahandi, and Bellary. These are interspersed by insights into a movement in the Himalayas that may offer alternatives in the form of sustainable agricultural systems, which revive traditional agricultural practices (Beej Bachao Andolan).
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A glowing review of a synthesis of some of the key themes in the study of environmental history as it relates to Latin America.
A report on the activities and debates at the fifth World Water Forum held at Istanbul in March 2009.
Anya Zilberstein, Carson Fellow from February 2012 until July 2012, talks about her project on prison gardens, especially the work of Count Rumford (Benjamin Thompson), who designed Munich’s English Garden in the late eighteenth century.
An examination of the origin, development, and future of environmental history in Spanish historiography.
An early history of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA), Tanzania, during the late 1950s and early 1960s.
The Editorial Team offers an introduction to the journal Environmental Humanities.
The philosopher Timothy Morton is using the Oedipal logic to explain the human shift from a creature inferior to nature to a geophysical force on a planetary scale and to think about possible solutions for an accordingly upcoming bitter end.
Eben Kirksey on how diverging values and obligations shape relationships in multi-species worlds.
Tom Lee on the dynamism and complexity of the relationship that exists between differing kinds of knowledge.