“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.
Anthropocene
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.
“Towards a Modern History of Gondwanaland”
This article explores Gondwanaland’s modern history, its unexpected political and cultural purchase since the 1880s.
“The Amazon as a Microcosm of the Anthropocene: Harald Sioli and the Ecological Globalization of the Tropical Rainforest”
In this video, RCC Landhaus Fellow André Felipe Cândido de Silva presents on “The Amazon as a Microcosm of the Anthropocene: Harald Sioli and the Ecological Globalization of the Tropical Rainforest.”
“Technology as a Strategy of the Human? A Comparison Between the Extension Concept and the Fetish Concept of Technology”
In this article, David Gentilcore writes about the Venetian cistern-system and its a success as a technology for treating rainwater.
Responding to the Anthropocene: Perspectives from Twelve Academic Disciplines
In this book, scholars and scientists from twelve disciplines write about the Anthropocene.
Different Ways of Thinking Globally: The Unlikely Return of the Noosphere in Russian Environmental Discourses
“The Isthmus of Panama and the Knowledge Anthropocene”
In this Springs article, historian Paul S. Sutter considers the “Knowledge Anthropocene” as well as deep time in George Perkins Marsh’s understanding of the construction of Panama’s Darién canal.
“Old Myths, New Bottles: Contribution to GTI Forum Big History and Great Transition.”
This short piece by former Rachel Carson Center fellow Lisa Sideris is a contribution to the Great Transition Initiative’s forum Big History and Great Transition.