landscapes

Explores the conceptualization of environments as landscape, philosophically and historically.

George Perkins Marsh chose to open Man and Nature, his magnum opus, with a discussion of the environmental decline and fall of the Roman Empire…

An introduction to seven articles—five of which are written by current doctoral or recent postdoctoral students—that explore ideas, themes, and methods relating to research in the field in New Zealand.

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.