Martin Knoll, Carson Fellow from October to March 2009, talks about his research concerning perceptions of nature and the creation of environmental knowledge in early modern topographical literature.
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From the nineteenth century onward the Piedmontese royal house contributed to the preservation of the Alpine ibex. As such, the Gran Paradiso, first as a hunting reserve and then as a national park, became the last Alpine refuge for this iconic animal.
An environmental history of the Industrial Revolution, as inscribed on the Liri valley in Italy’s Central Apennines.
In January 1910, a one-hundred-year flood of the Seine disrupted northern France. Many towns suffered severe damage, but Paris was particularly devastated.
Conservation Song explores ways in which colonial relations shaped meanings and conflicts over environmental control and management in Malawi. By focusing on soil conservation, which required an integrated approach to the use and management of such natural resources as land, water, and forestry, it examines the origins and effects of policies and their legacies in the post-colonial era.
The world is full of environmental injustices and inequalities; yet few European historians have tackled these subjects head on, nor have they explored their relationships with social inequalities.
The first bird protection organization in the United States is founded in Boston.
Jocelyn Thorpe, currently an assistant professor of women’s studies at Memorial University of Newfoundland, talks about her work on the social construction of the Temagami region as a wilderness area and its implications for the Teme-Augama Anishnabai.
A collection offering global perspectives on the intersections of mind and environment across a variety of discourses—from history and politics to the visual arts and architecture.
Two graphs covering the last 420,000 years. One indicates the concentration of CO2 in the earth’s atmosphere, the other fluctuation in the average temperature on earth. Both include predictions for the remainder of the twenty-first century.