Africa’s Mountains: Collecting and Interpreting the Past
This essay addresses the challenges of collecting and interpreting data for environmental history in East Africa’s highlands.
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Pursuing Environmental History on India’s Himalayas: Challenges and Rewards
A reflection on the challenges of doing environmental history research in the diverse region of the Himalayas.
The Challenge of Scale in Environmental History: A Small Meditation on a Large Matter
Using the example of mountains in South America, this article illustrates how different ways of thinking about scale can shape the questions we ask.
Crossing Mountains: The Challenges of Doing Environmental History
About this issue
This issue of RCC Perspectives uses mountains as a common denominator around which to discuss overarching challenges of environmental history: challenges relating not only to mountain landscapes, but also to broader questions of sources, methods, cross-cultural research, project scale, and audience. Each author discusses some of their most intriguing discoveries, resulting in a brief and diverse collection of environmental history snapshots.
Content
A Latecoming Pioneer: Austria's Hohe Tauern National Park
Arcadia, 2014, no. 9
Towards a Political Ecology of Scale in High Mountains
This article looks at how the ongoing processes of border-making are experienced and negotiated by the ethnic minorities who live in the Himalayan mountain peripheries.
“I Prefer to Die on the Mountain”: Local Resistance to National Park Development on Mount Merapi
Resources and Revolution: Mexico’s Iztaccíhuatl and Popocatépetl National Park
Highland Sanctuary: Environmental History in Tanzania's Usambara Mountains
Highland Sanctuary unravels the complex interactions among agriculture, herding, forestry, the colonial state, and the landscape in the Usambara mountains of Tanzania.
The Triglav National Park: A Century-Long Project
Arcadia, 2013, no. 13