In episode 22 of Nature’s Past, a podcast on Canadian environmental history, Sean Kheraj talks to Claire Campbell, the editor of A Century of Parks Canada, and contributing authors George Colpitts and Gwynn Langemann on Canada’s national parks history from coast to coast.
Richards shows how humans—whether clearing forests or draining wetlands, transporting bacteria, insects, and livestock; hunting species to extinction, or reshaping landscapes—altered the material well-being of the natural world along with their own.
An examination of the relationship between African Americans and the environment in US history.
Taking an environmental history perspective of the nothwestern plains, this book represents an excellent example of how to tie the human experience to the limits and opportunities presented by environment.
A collection of essays that explore the “paper landscapes” of the colonial literature and archives in search of the real environmental history of Indonesia.
Economic historian Paolo Malanima reviews a work of ambitious scale by geographer Ian Gordon Simmons.
Experts in history, history of science, archaeology, geography, and environmental studies examine the history of the region.
A comprehensive history of the Adirondack mountain range in the eastern United States.
Clapperton Mavhunga, Carson Fellow from July to December 2011, talks about his work on incoming technology and African innovation.
This paper examines hunting in the colonial era and attempts to evaluate its role in avifaunal decline on the Gippsland Lakes.
