The authors provide an overview of the scientific and traditional knowledge that the Zaira community, located in the Solomon Islands, uses to underpin their community-based management regime of Leatherback Sea Turtles. This highlights the important role local communities play in the conservation of iconic species.
The article examines how the Japanese occupation of Malaysia between 1942 and 1945 highlights the interrelation between war and the natural environment as forming an integral part of the national narrative and global environmentalism.
The remote Easter Island was settled around 900 by Polynesians who built hundreds of giant stone statues and completely deforested the island before their society underwent a dramatic collapse. Although controversy exists regarding the exact cause of this collapse, the story of Easter Island has unsettling parallels with modern resource issues.
Using Northern Ghana as a case study, this paper questions the usefulness of regional data for understanding food insecurity, and shows that the supposedly novel ideas of the present in fact have a strong colonial lineage.
The failure of the potato crop in Ireland, aided by harsh British land ownership policies, caused a period of mass starvation, disease, and emigration.
A study of social vulnerability to climate in Switzerland and in the Czech Lands during the early 1770s.
More than three million Bengali perish in a famine that remains one of the worst catastrophes in the history of modern India.
