settlements

A frontier environmental history of Cossack settlers in the North Caucasus reveals some of the weaknesses of the Russian imperial mission.

Ringbarking, as a means of destroying trees, was known and practised from the earliest years of British settlement in New South Wales…

In this article, which considers the settlement of the high-rainfall forests of Eastern Australia, it is argued that the main pests were indigenous not exotic.

There is an urgency and a fracture to Australian environmental history…

The pioneer urban and environmental planner, Patrick Geddes, and his American disciple, Lewis Mumford, dismissed the monumental art museum as an outsized emblem of the garrison state, corporate consolidation, and imperial ambition…

Early European travellers were impressed by the trees and forests of the Owambo region, north Namibia. As they became better acquainted with the Owambo way of life, Europeans began to warn of deforestation in the region.

This paper argues that much historical and political analysis of Zimbabwe neglects a crucial resource: water.

Relates the story of the development of distinct landscapes and ambiences on the urban fringe in three eastern US counties.