"Humans and Forests in Pre-colonial Southeast Asia"
Until about fifteen centuries ago the interaction of humans with the Southeast Asian rainforest was primarily one of interdependence…
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"Reading Forest History Backwards: Guinea's Forest-Savanna Mosaic, 1893–1993"
Sophisticated local agricultural and forest management techniques have underlain the creation and maintenance of the main landscape features in Kissidougou Prefecture of Guinea’s forest-savanna transition zone…
"Silent Spring at 50"
A comparative analysis of the reception of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring in the United States and in the UK.
Banana Cultures: Agriculture, Consumption, and Environmental Change in Honduras and the United States
Examines the relationship between the mass consumption of a tropical commodity (bananas) in the United States, and environmental and social change in Honduras during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Protests against agricultural use of the Little Desert
Constant protesting leads to a recall of the Victoria government’s plans.
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Taming the Danube: Floodplain Regulation in the Machland
Arcadia, 2011, no. 2
Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel
The Society for the Preservation of Nature in Israel is founded in 1953; today it is the largest conservation organization in Israel.
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Mussolini Agricultural Act
Launch of a nationwide land reclamation campaign.
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First European Contact with Potatoes
First contact of Europeans with potatos in the Magdalena Valley in the Colombian Andes
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Bengal Famine of 1943
More than three million Bengali perish in a famine that remains one of the worst catastrophes in the history of modern India.
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