"Science and Land Use: The Kosciusko Primitive Area Dispute of 1958-65"

This article examines the conflicts behind the scenes, within the AAS, between the AAS and the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Authority (SMA), and within the SMA. It argues that the scientists’ conflict with the SMA over plans for the summit area of Mount Kosciusko (now Kosciuszko) not only established ecology as a scientific basis for conservation thinking: It foreshadowed the current idea that management of a healthy country involves recognition of the links between aesthetic and scientific thinking.

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Completion of the Appalachian Trail

In August 1937, after almost 20 years of hard work and collaboration between the US Government, local hiking groups, and private land owners, the Appalachian Trail was completed.

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Paisaje del Río Bogotá (Colombia) S.A. The landscape of the Bogotá River. One of the riverbanks is planted entirely with eucalyptus. (Photograph by Gumersindo Cuéllar Jiménez. © Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango.)

Gumersindo Cuéllar Jiménez, Paisaje del Río Bogotá (Colombia) S.A.

Las corrientes de la ciudad: Una historia del agua en la Bogotá del siglo XX

Esta exposición explora el rol del agua en la lucha de Bogotá, capital de Colombia, por convertirse en una ciudad moderna. Para Bogotá, cumplir con los estándares de los higienistas y la élite gobernante fue una tarea de control social, tecnológico y ambiental. Esta exposición examina experiencias cotidianas del agua como el lavado de la ropa o la limpieza del cuerpo, al mismo tiempo que estudia intervenciones de infraestructura urbana que incluyeron la domesticación de los ríos para el abastecimiento de agua potable y la evacuación de aguas residuales.

Stefania Gallini, Laura Felacio, Angélica Agredo y Stephanie Garcés

About the author

Gallini, Stefania

Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia

Stefania Gallini is an environmental and Latin American historian at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogotá, where she coordinates the Environmental History Research Group of the Department of History. She graduated with a degree in political science from the Universitá degli Studi di Milano (1995), took a master’s degree in area studies at the University of London (1998), and was granted a PhD in Latin American history from the Universitá degli Studi di Genova (2002). She is author of the book Una historia ambiental del café en Guatemala: La Costa Cuca entre 1830 y 1902 (Guatemala: AVANCSO, 2009), which in 2010 was awarded the Elinor Melville Prize for Latin American Environmental History by the Conference of Latin American History. In the same year she spent time in Munich as a Carson Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society working on an ongoing project on waste history in Bogotá. She is a founding member of Latin American and Caribbean Society of Environmental History (SOLCHA) and joint president from 2012 to 2014. She is also active in the European Society for Environmental History (ESEH) and International Consortium of Environmental History Organizations (ICEHO). Besides environmental history and Latin American history, digital humanities is her third area of interest. She has published on these areas in academic journals and has edited books in Latin America, the US, UK, and Italy.

Felacio, Laura

Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia

Laura Felacio graduated with a degree in history from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia (2009), and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in urbanism at the same university. She has been a member of the Environmental History Research Group of the Department of History at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia since 2009. Her research interests include environmental history, urban history, and social history. She is author of articles in Colombian academic journals, such as “La Empresa Municipal del Acueducto de Bogotá: Creación, logros y limitaciones, 1911–1924” (Anuario Colombiano de Historia Social y de la Cultura 38, no. 1 (2011): 109–40), “Memoria, territorio y oficio alfarero: La memoria colectiva en los barrios del Cerro del Cable” (Revista Nodo 6, no. 11 (2011): 77–98), and “La huelga de las telefonistas: Condiciones, problemas y manifestaciones de las mujeres obreras a comienzos del siglo XX en Bogotá” (Ciudad Paz-ando 5, no. 1 (2012): 31–48).

Agredo, Angélica

Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia

Angélica Agredo is a historian from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia (2014). Her fields of interest are environmental history and the history of science, technology and medicine. She has been associated with the Environmental History Research Group of the Department of History at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia since 2012. Her undergraduate dissertation, entitled “Naturaleza hostil y ferrocarriles: El abandono del sistema férreo en Colombia. El caso del Ferrocarril Troncal de Occidente en el invierno de 1973,” obtained the award “Best Undergraduate Dissertation in History, Version XXIII, 2014” by the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. After graduating with honors, she received a full scholarship to study at King’s College London where she is currently attending the master of arts program in Science, Technology and Medicine in History.

Garcés, Stephanie

Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia

Stephanie Garcés is a historian from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia (2014). She has been associated with the Environmental History Research Group of the Department of History at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia since 2012. Her work is focused on the development of digital humanities and the use of new tools for web researches on this field. She manages the blog De Reformas y Soldados, which focuses on the relationship between war and religion during the modern age.

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The Mount Rushmore National Memorial

The Mount Rushmore National Memorial in Keystone, South Dakota is a sculpture of the heads of four prominent United States presidents and a protected landscape by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

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Wild Earth 13, no. 1

Wild Earth 13, no. 1, features essays that present contrasting views on mountain biking in the wilderness, the Clovis culture and origins of ecological awareness, as well as the National Wilderness Preservation System and wilderness abuse.

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Wild Earth 5, no. 2

Wild Earth 5, no. 2 discusses the environmental consequences of having a baby in the United States; bumblebee ecology; and the Nevada Biodiversity Research and Conservation Initiative.

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A Symphony of Summits. The Alps from Above

A geography and history of the Alps, filmed exclusively with aerial shots.

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Introduction

Paisaje del Río Bogotá (Colombia) S.A. The landscape of the Bogotá River. One of the riverbanks is planted entirely with eucalyptus. (Photograph by Gumersindo Cuéllar Jiménez. © Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango.)

The City's Currents: A History of Water in 20th-Century Bogotá

This exhibition explores the role of water in the struggle of Colombia’s capital to become a modern city. For Bogotá, complying with the standards of sanitary reformers and the governing elite was a social, technological, and environmental control endeavor. The exhibition examines everyday and gendered experiences of water, such as washing clothes or bathing, as well as urban infrastructural interventions including the domestication of rivers for water supply and wastewater disposal systems.

Stefania Gallini, Laura Felacio, Angélica Agredo, and Stephanie Garcés

About the author

Gallini, Stefania

Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia

Stefania Gallini is an environmental and Latin American historian at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogotá, where she coordinates the Environmental History Research Group of the Department of History. She graduated with a degree in political science from the Universitá degli Studi di Milano (1995), took a master’s degree in area studies at the University of London (1998), and was granted a PhD in Latin American history from the Universitá degli Studi di Genova (2002). She is author of the book Una historia ambiental del café en Guatemala: La Costa Cuca entre 1830 y 1902 (Guatemala: AVANCSO, 2009), which in 2010 was awarded the Elinor Melville Prize for Latin American Environmental History by the Conference of Latin American History. In the same year she spent time in Munich as a Carson Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society working on an ongoing project on waste history in Bogotá. She is a founding member of Latin American and Caribbean Society of Environmental History (SOLCHA) and joint president from 2012 to 2014. She is also active in the European Society for Environmental History (ESEH) and International Consortium of Environmental History Organizations (ICEHO). Besides environmental history and Latin American history, digital humanities is her third area of interest. She has published on these areas in academic journals and has edited books in Latin America, the US, UK, and Italy.

Felacio, Laura

Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia

Laura Felacio graduated with a degree in history from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia (2009), and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in urbanism at the same university. She has been a member of the Environmental History Research Group of the Department of History at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia since 2009. Her research interests include environmental history, urban history, and social history. She is author of articles in Colombian academic journals, such as “La Empresa Municipal del Acueducto de Bogotá: Creación, logros y limitaciones, 1911–1924” (Anuario Colombiano de Historia Social y de la Cultura 38, no. 1 (2011): 109–40), “Memoria, territorio y oficio alfarero: La memoria colectiva en los barrios del Cerro del Cable” (Revista Nodo 6, no. 11 (2011): 77–98), and “La huelga de las telefonistas: Condiciones, problemas y manifestaciones de las mujeres obreras a comienzos del siglo XX en Bogotá” (Ciudad Paz-ando 5, no. 1 (2012): 31–48).

Agredo, Angélica

Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia

Angélica Agredo is a historian from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia (2014). Her fields of interest are environmental history and the history of science, technology and medicine. She has been associated with the Environmental History Research Group of the Department of History at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia since 2012. Her undergraduate dissertation, entitled “Naturaleza hostil y ferrocarriles: El abandono del sistema férreo en Colombia. El caso del Ferrocarril Troncal de Occidente en el invierno de 1973,” obtained the award “Best Undergraduate Dissertation in History, Version XXIII, 2014” by the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. After graduating with honors, she received a full scholarship to study at King’s College London where she is currently attending the master of arts program in Science, Technology and Medicine in History.

Garcés, Stephanie

Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia

Stephanie Garcés is a historian from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia (2014). She has been associated with the Environmental History Research Group of the Department of History at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia since 2012. Her work is focused on the development of digital humanities and the use of new tools for web researches on this field. She manages the blog De Reformas y Soldados, which focuses on the relationship between war and religion during the modern age.