More Than a “Paper Park”: Tayrona, a Caribbean Paradise
Arcadia, 2015, no. 6
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The Dutch Hunger Winter 1944-45
The Hongerwinter was a major famine that occurred in the Netherlands, particularly in the Nazi-occupied western part of the country. Twenty-two thousand people died and 4.5 million were affected by the direct and indirect consequences of the famine.
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Africa’s Mountains: Collecting and Interpreting the Past
This essay addresses the challenges of collecting and interpreting data for environmental history in East Africa’s highlands.
"Realms of Value: Conflicting Natural Resource Values and Incommensurability"
Divergent values are often at the heart of natural resource conflict. Sarah Fleisher Trainor analyses those using the case study of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah, USA.
"Gender, Values and Power in Local Environmental Conflicts: The Case of Grassroots Organisations in North Catalonia"
In this article, Mercè Agüera-Cabo presents the case of grassroots organizations in North Catalonia in the context of gender, values, and power in local environmental conflicts.
Bitten by Success: Conflicts Over Tourism Revenue and Natural Resources at Komodo National Park
Nature Conservation in Ski Country? The Vanoise National Park
Arcadia, 2014, no. 2
"Peasant Protest as Environmental Protest: Some Cases from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century"
A nuanced treatment of the relation between peasant protests and environment with reference to a broad range of examples from Mediterranean Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Africa.
"Editorial" for Global Environment 4
This fourth issue continues the journal’s exploration of the scientific paradigms of global environmental history.
"The Effect of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict on the Water Resources of the Jordan River Basin"
The article analyzes the interaction between security and environment in the Mediterranean, focusing on the paradigmatic example of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict over water resources in the Jordan River basin.