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This documentary shows how the local population of Tanzania has been evicted to make way for the creation of the world’s most famous nature reserves.

In this article, the authors argue that the rise of the Inca would not have been possible without increased crop productivity, which was linked to more favorable climatic conditions.

A report on the activities and debates at the fifth World Water Forum held at Istanbul in March 2009.

Interview with the author of one of the first environmental histories of the Ottoman Empire.

Stefania Barca presents an environmental history of the Industrial Revolution, through the lens of the Liri River Valley.

Using Hui county as a case study, this paper reconstructs the history of forestry and the changing patterns of forest tenure rights in the northwestern province of Gansu in 1949–1998.

This drama captures how the inhabitants of Javé, a small village somewhere in Brazil, set out to secure a future for themselves in the face of plans for a hydropower dam that threaten to submerge their village.

Using the controversy over copyright on the internet as a case study and the history of the environmental movement as a comparison, this article offers a couple of modest proposals about what a politics of intellectual property might look like.

An account of how national parks developed into one of the most important arenas of contention between native peoples and non-Indians in the twentieth century.

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.