Histories of environmentalism in Australia often overlook the 1950s, an era when scientific ecology dominated environmental activism…
Ringbarking, as a means of destroying trees, was known and practised from the earliest years of British settlement in New South Wales…
There is an urgency and a fracture to Australian environmental history…
Carruthers explores the relevance of work conducted by James Stevenson-Hamilton, during his employment in the Sudan civil service, to the modern conservation doctrine of sustainable yield.
Commentary on the articles in this special issue of Environment and History, “Ecological Visionaries/Ecologised Visions.”
This special issue of Environment and History stems from a series of conference sessions that attempted to address the gap between environmental history and the history of ecology.
In Sweden, during the 20th century, a number of different groups or institutions have nominated themselves as being Nature’s representatives. This essay deals with the ideas, motives or reasons for nature conservation advanced by these groups.
Olwig asserts that the discipline we now know as environmental history owes a great deal of its impetus to the emergence at the beginning of the nineteenth century of a socially engaged and environmentally committed interdisciplinary ‘proto-discipline.’
An introduction to papers delivered in 1992 at an international and interdisciplinary symposium on environmental history at the Lammi Biological Station of the University of Helsinki.
This article argues that local religious institutions are used by ruling lineages for political control, to grant preferential access to particular resources, and to enhance political hegemony.
