"Ecology and Ideology in the General Systems Community"
This paper gives an account of the participatory, democratic and pluralistic perspectives of Boulding and other important figures in the General Systems Community (GSC).
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"Editorial: Ecological Visionaries and the Politics of Conservation"
This special issue of Environment and History stems from a series of conference sessions that attempted to address the gap between environmental history and the history of ecology.
"Interfusing Ethics, Ecology and History: Disputing a Non-convergent Evolution"
A review of: Landscape and Memory by Simon Schama; Ecological Relations in Historical Times: Human Impact and Adaptation by Robin A. Butlin, and Neil Roberts; and Hunters and Collectors: The Antiquarian Imagination in Australia by Tom Griffiths.
"The Environmental Crisis and the Tasks of History in Latin America"
The study of history in a sense that can be called ‘environmental’ is a discipline yet to be created in Latin America. This has become an obstacle that must be overcome if we are to understand better the serious social and environmental deterioration of the region.
"Editorial: This, that and the other," for Environment and History 2, no. 3 (Oct., 1996)
There seems little doubt that many environmental historians, this editor included, have tended to fall into a veritable elephant trap of simplistic polarities when they deal, as they increasingly are doing, with the unwieldy but vital subject of the colonial impact on the tropical environment and its people…
"The Attitude of Kautilya to Aranya"
The Kautiliya Arthasastra is a famous treatise on state-craft which within its state policies includes ecological concerns…
"Environmental Histories of South Asia: A Review Essay"
Two broad themes taken up in the literature will be the focus of this essay: how far colonialism was an ecological watershed, and how producers responded to new pressures. The third issue is of what we can or should learn (or unlearn) from the colonial experience.
"Editorial" for Environment and History 2, no.2, South Asia special issue (June, 1996)
Introduction to a special issue that reflects the rapid growth of research in environmental history now apparent throughout the South Asian region.
"Conservation, Control and Ecological Change: The Politics and Ecology of Colonial Conservation in Shurugwi, Zimbabwe"
Focusing first on official discourse and the conflict which accompanied the passage of early conservation legislation, this article then looks at the different interpretations of the effects of implementation in Shurugwi communal area.
“Introduction,” Environment and History 1, no. 3, Zimbabwe special issue (October 1995)
An introduction to the essays in this special issue, which provide new perspectives on local as well as state and international environmental politics, and their interactions.