Anne Milne on "British Eighteenth-Century Laboring-Class Poets"
Ecocritic Anne Milne, Carson Fellow from January 2010 to July 2011, talks about her research project concerning British eighteenth-century laboring-class poets.
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"'When The Well's Dry:' Water and the Promise of Sustainability in the American Southwest"
This article argues that it is more accurate to combine the categories of nature and culture, to see humans as inextricably and deeply entwined with the natural world, and to recognise all environmental issues as characterised by the contradictory relationships humans have developed with the world they inhabit.
"Environmental Failure, Success and Sustainable Development: The Hauraki Plains Wetlands Through Four Generations of New Zealanders"
Taking a long-term approach following one family of Pakeha through four generations of interaction with the Hauraki Plains wetlands, this study argues that the environmental transformation that happened there was less a question of culture than of a specific time and place (context of civilisation).
"A Native American System of Wetland Agriculture in Different Ecosystems in the Ecuadorian Andes (15th–18th Centuries)"
In this paper, Caillavet identifies a range of archival sources which provide evidence of the nature, functions, and ecology of agricultural techniques in the northern Ecuadorian highlands.
“Three Dimensions of Environmental History”
This essay maintains that environmental historians should increasingly investigate theoretical aspects of their subject, and encourages more prevalent reasoned discourse between multiple viewpoints.
"Selling the 'Untold Wealth' in the Seas: A Social and Cultural History of the South-east Australian Shelf Trawling Industry, 1915–1961"
Between 1915 and 1961 a state-run trawling industry operated on the South-east Australian shelf targeting tiger flathead (Neoplatycephalus richardsoni) as its principal species…
"Subterranean Bodies: Mining the Large Lakes of North-west Canada, 1921–1960"
This paper examines the history of hard rock mining on the large lakes of north-west Canada (Athabasca, Great Slave and Great Bear) from 1921 to 1960.
"For the 'Preservation of Friends' and the 'Destruction of Enemies:' Studying and Protecting Birds in Late Imperial Russia"
This paper surveys major developments in the Imperial Russian history of wild bird protection and related issues of ornithology during the century or so leading up to the First World War.
"'Forsaken Spot' to 'Classic Ground': Geological Heritage in Australia and the Recuperative Power of the Deep Past"
This study seeks to construct a theory of geological heritage and the redemptive or recuperative power of material remains of the deep past, concentrating on three landscapes.
"A History of the Hima Conservation System"
The paper reviews the changes that have taken place in Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Yemen with regard to the hima—a reserved pasture, where trees and grazing lands are protected from indiscriminate harvest on a temporary or permanent basis.