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An early history of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA), Tanzania, during the late 1950s and early 1960s.

A nuanced treatment of the relation between peasant protests and environment with reference to a broad range of examples from Mediterranean Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Africa.

This fourth issue continues the journal’s exploration of the scientific paradigms of global environmental history.

This book is a collection of papers from one of the first major US conferences on environmental history, which took place 1–3 January 1982 at the University of California’s Irvine campus, and brought together over 100 scholars active in the field.

An interview with Joachim Radkau, professor of history at the University of Bielefeld in Germany and author of Nature and Power: A Global History of the Environment..

This study examines the debates on, and processes of, land reform in Zimbabwe during the independence era, exploring the social, economic, and political contexts of perceptions of land redistribution and management.

Using Hui county as a case study, this paper reconstructs the history of forestry and the changing patterns of forest tenure rights in the northwestern province of Gansu in 1949–1998.

Investigates the significance of the Sundarbans as a natural reserve or buffer area (a resource of yet unknown magnitude) in pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial South Asia.

Environmental historian Federico Paolini talks to Wolfgang Sachs, head of the Berlin office of the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment, and Energy, about some of today’s major environmental issues. These range from ecological justice to resources, development, and climate.

Editors in chief Mauro Agnoletti and Gabriella Corona outline the journal’s objectives in its first issue.