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An overview, in German, of the discipline of environmental history.

Investigates the significance of the Sundarbans as a natural reserve or buffer area (a resource of yet unknown magnitude) in pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial South Asia.

A review of a Russian language volume published by the Russian Institute of Cultural and Natural Heritage, and with a forward by the then director of UNESCO’s World Heritage Centre Francesco Bandarin. The book covers approaches to cultural landscapes, as well as to their conservation and management.

Environmental historian Federico Paolini talks to Wolfgang Sachs, head of the Berlin office of the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment, and Energy, about some of today’s major environmental issues. These range from ecological justice to resources, development, and climate.

This article examines the long-term anthropogenic factors that have affected the Atlantic Coastal Forest.

The modernization, the declinist, and the inclinist paradigms of the late twentieth century, despite their differences, all tended to frame environmental change in a unilinear Nature-to-Culture fashion, which in turn entailed homogenizing the agency, process, and outcome of environmental change. This article examines the characteristics of each paradigm, as well as some of the paradoxes that have arisen in their wake. Finally, it looks to alternative approaches.

Castro wishes to encourage a new reading of the best-known sources and authors associated with this issue, as well as the adoption of a new perspective on the deep origins of the environmental problems that the country faces today.

This film follows one farming couple’s efforts to maintain the mountain farmers’ way of life through an organic cheese dairy in the Swiss Alps.

This drama captures how the inhabitants of Javé, a small village somewhere in Brazil, set out to secure a future for themselves in the face of plans for a hydropower dam that threaten to submerge their village.

Intended to address the alarming rate of deforestation worldwide, this series documents the efforts of indigenous peoples across the globe to find alternatives to exploitative and destructive forest practices.