landscapes

Martin Schmid, Carson Fellow from March to August 2011, speaks about his research project, “An Environmental History of the Danube.”

Shane McCorristine, a Carson fellow from June to September 2010, talks about how the arctic regions were understood in the nineteenth century.

This article addresses the direct impacts of war on the physical landscape and why the magnitude of disturbance has increased significantly over the past century.

An essay review of books by Arun Agrawal, Peder Anker, David Arnold, Gregory A. Barton, Richard Drayton, and S. Ravi. Rajan.

This article demonstrates that monks were able to use their religious authority and their control of religious message to support and supplement their temporal powers. The control of water resources was deeply connected to monastic identity and the relationships between monks and the secular world.

New Zealand’s literature (1890–1925) offers a wealth of information for the environmental historian that is unparalleled by most other countries.

The author explores some of the expressions of the changes in human perceptions of, and responses to, a group of plants with which people have had to contend for places, and the deeper cultural significances of the contest itself. New Zealand’s discrete landscape and the settler society is the context in which Clayton further develops his analysis.

The two landscapes, Nevada Test Site and Yosemite National Park, have, on the surface, very little in common. However, in recent years, a number of nuclear and post-nuclear landscapes have been praised for attracting rare species of flora and fauna…

This article examines the alienation of water users in the lower Colorado River Basin from the river and its delta during the twentieth century.

The authors identify two distinct forms of masculinity, Australian and Cuban, and proceed to show how men and their rhetoric are overtaken, then transformed, by political and environmental developments not of their choosing.