In this paper, Caillavet identifies a range of archival sources which provide evidence of the nature, functions, and ecology of agricultural techniques in the northern Ecuadorian highlands.
Spanish dehesas, the most extensive wood pastures in Mediterranean Europe, are a vivid example for demonstrating that the impact of rural communities on forests has not always been a bad thing.
This article examines water pollution and its control in the United States from the turn of the twentieth century until after the Second World War, a period during which water pollution became an interstate problem.
George Perkins Marsh, United States minister to Italy, renowned as a linguist and a geographer, was a fitting choice to be named arbiter of a disputed Italo-Swiss boundary segment, the alpe of Cravairola, north of Domodossola and west of Locarno, in 1874.
This article analyses how multi-faceted narratives of south Indian people as communities and their rights in land and resources were established in early European reports from the Nilgiris.
Stolberg examines the history of air pollution as a scientific, social and political issue from 1800 to 1860.
Recent and current environmental legislation in Nepal is described, and its relation to sustainable development analysed.
The attempts of Angus Smith and his colleagues to control alkali pollution after 1863 are usually seen as being a success…
The ministry functions as the central state administrative authority and highest inspection authority in environmental affairs.
On 1 January 1970, US President Nixon signs the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).
