Syllabi in Environment and Society
Short profiles of university and course syllabi, and collaborative syllabi projects on Environment and Society.
Anthropocene
“Radical Environmentalism’s Print History: From Earth First! to Wild Earth.”
In this essay (updated in 2019), Bron Taylor offers background about the events that gave rise to the Earth First! movement and reviews some of the watershed moments in its history, including its print publications.
“In a Northern Sandbox: A World Congress in Finland”
An account of how the 2024 World Congress of Environmental History developed from idea to reality, and of what this trajectory says about environmental historical scholarship today.
“Rivers as Battlefields: Ukraine’s Dnipro”
Ukraine’s Dnipro River and nearby inhabitants have lived through brute-force environmental change and war over the last century.
“Ecological Constitutionalism: A Necessity”
In view of the escalating environmental crisis, the democratic states of the Global North must ecologically transform their social and constitutional orders.
Biodiversity: Handbook of the Anthropocene in Latin America II
Full text of the second volume of The Anthropocene as Multiple Crisis: Perspectives from Latin America.
The Emergence of the Hero-Hunter in the Greek Anthropocene
Arcadia, Autumn 2024, no. 12
“Environmental History’s Usable Past: On Reviving the Scholarship of Synthesis”
A reflection on the historical approach to synthesis as a part of the toolbox of environmental history, with a focus on Lewis Mumford.
The Routledge Handbook of Environmental History
Read the introduction to The Routledge Handbook of Environmental History.
Land Use: Handbook of the Anthropocene in Latin America I
Full text of the first volume of The Anthropocene as Multiple Crisis: Perspectives from Latin America.