economy

This fourth issue continues the journal’s exploration of the scientific paradigms of global environmental history.

Stefania Barca presents an environmental history of the Industrial Revolution, through the lens of the Liri River Valley.

Using Hui county as a case study, this paper reconstructs the history of forestry and the changing patterns of forest tenure rights in the northwestern province of Gansu in 1949–1998.

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.

For one month, we are able to follow an assistant forester on his daily rounds about the province of Capiz on Panay Island, as the forest was transformed from a resource and a refuge into an arena where state management practices and indigenous customary rights competed alongside those who saw trees as nothing more than a commercial enterprise.

An interview with Serge Latouche, a proponent of the anti-utilitarian movement in environmental thought.

Agnoletti and Corona provide the background on this issue.

Japan has one of the most eco-efficient economies in the world. The present paper looks at the history of two central policy measures designed to stimulate the emergence of a more sustainable industrial base.

A review of economist Óscar Carpintero’s history of resource use in the Spanish economy.

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