"Agroecosystem, Peasants, and Conflicts: Environmental History in Spain at the Beginning of the Twenty-first Century"
An examination of the origin, development, and future of environmental history in Spanish historiography.
Aliases:
forestry
forests
"Macroeconomic and Environmental History: The Impact of Currency Depreciation on Forests in British India, 1873–93"
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.
Boomgaard, Peter, et al., eds. Muddied Waters: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Management of Forests and Fisheries in Island Southeast Asia
This collection of essays examines the history of human interaction with forest and marine ecosystems in Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines, where many of the contributors have conducted fieldwork.
Review of From Rainforest to Cane Field in Cuba: An Environmental History since 1492 by Reinaldo Funes Monzote
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).
"Reconstructing the History of Forestry in Northwestern China, 1949–98"
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.
“Environmental History, Traditional Populations, and Paleo-Territories in the Brazilian Atlantic Coastal Forest”
This article examines the long-term anthropogenic factors that have affected the Atlantic Coastal Forest.
"Poverty in the Gwai Forest Reserve, Zimbabwe: 1880–1953"
This study examines the role of colonial foresters in introducing new socioeconomic arrangements that resulted in increased poverty among the Tonga, Shona, and Ndebele communities in the Gwai Forest Reserve of North-Western Matabeleland, Zimbabwe.
“The Nature-Culture Trap: A Critique of Late 20th Century Global Paradigms of Environmental Change in Africa and Beyond”
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.
Wälder der Hoffnung [Forests of Hope]
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.
Dirty Paradise
This is the story of the Wayana people in French Amazonia, whose future is threatened following the arrival of gold miners.