deforestation

In linking culture with nature, science with history, Man and Nature was the most influential text of its time next to Darwin’s On the Origin of Species.

A closer examination of India’s monetary history reveals that there exist many similarities between the effects of structural adjustment programs and those of monetary disturbances in the last quarter of the nineteenth century due to the depreciation of the rupee.

A graphic novel for children inspired by the disappearance from Białowieża Primeval Forest of the wild European bison.

A review of the revised English translation, published 2008, of the prize-winning Spanish original De bosque a sabana: azúcar, deforestación y medio ambiente en Cuba, 1492–1926 (2004).

This study examines the debates on, and processes of, land reform in Zimbabwe during the independence era, exploring the social, economic, and political contexts of perceptions of land redistribution and management.

Under the European colonial powers, agricultural methods and techniques, along with well-organized routines in sugar production, were developed on the Caribbean islands with a view to managing sugar plantations as efficiently as possible. The results were in many cases deforestation, impoverished soils, and erosion.

An environmental history of the Atlantic Forest in Brazil from pre-modern times to the late twentieth century.

Experts in history, history of science, archaeology, geography, and environmental studies examine the history of the region.

A sobering contribution to the food versus fuel debate and an equally poignant exposé of the human and environmental impacts of European policy on biofuels.

This dramatised film portrays the fate of the Guarani-Kaiowá people, dispossessed of their land in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul to make way for cultivation of genetically modified crops.