“Timber Exploitation in Colonial Brazil: A Historical Perspective of the Atlantic Forest”
This article investigates the exploitation of timber in Brazil during the colonial period.
This article investigates the exploitation of timber in Brazil during the colonial period.
Excerpt from the book American Tropics: The Caribbean Roots of Biodiversity Science by Megan Raby.
This chapter of the “Wilderness Babel” exhibition, written by historian Lars Elenius, looks at Swedish notions of wilderness and its uses over history.
This chapter of the “Wilderness babel” exhibition, written by historical ecologist and environmental historian Péter Szabó, looks at Hungarian notions of “wilderness.”
The German term Wildnis, as is demonstrated in this part of the “Wilderness Babel” exhibition by historian Patrick Kupper, has always referred to places of difference, distinct by their very separation from society’s cultivated spaces.
This chapter of the “Wilderness Babel” exhibition, written by historian Mikko Saikku, explores central concepts for understanding the traditional Finnish relationship with nature and use of natural resources.
This part of the “Wilderness Babel” exhibition, written by semiotician Kadri Tüur, describes how terms denoting general categories regarding nature are quite diverse in Estonia—a country where language and culture have been very intimately intertwined with landscapes and their natural conditions.
Hellbender Journal is a voice for forest activists working towards the protection of the Allegheny Forests in Pennsylvania. This issue focuses on efforts to oppose clearcutting in the Allegheny National Forest and on the discovery of endangered Indiana bats in the forest.