An introduction to papers delivered in 1992 at an international and interdisciplinary symposium on environmental history at the Lammi Biological Station of the University of Helsinki.
This paper takes the case of the cinchona tree to examine the rhetoric of colonial science in conjunction with its economic and political functions.
The paper examines the way in which the environment is produced as intellectual capital. It asks about the extent to which the environment can be understood by science and through science.
A comparative analysis of the reception of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring in the United States and in the UK.
How can the changing nature of the relationship between urban environments and rural hinterlands be better understood? Three prominent Canadian environmental history scholars critique the role of metropolitanism in environmental history research.
A global view of the age of plastic, from its beginnings to the increasingly serious implications it has for humans and the environment.
Gabriella Corona in conversation with Piero Bevilacqua, Guillermo Castro, Ranjan Chakrabarti, Kobus du Pisani, John R. McNeill, and Donald Worster.
Examines the relationship between the mass consumption of a tropical commodity (bananas) in the United States, and environmental and social change in Honduras during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
In 1971, Biruté Galdikas begins her long-term study of wild orangutans, which would greatly expand human scientific knowledge on these primates.
Fossey becomes a leading expert on mountain gorillas and advocates for their protection.
