"Editorial" for Environment and History 4, no.2, Australia special issue (June, 1998)
There is an urgency and a fracture to Australian environmental history…
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“Coping with the Past: Patrick Geddes, Lewis Mumford and the Regional Museum”
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…
"Deforestation in the Owambo Region, North Namibia, Since the 1850s"
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.
"Water as a Weapon: The History of Water Supply Development in Nkayi District, Zimbabwe"
This paper argues that much historical and political analysis of Zimbabwe neglects a crucial resource: water.
"Landscape and Ambience on the Urban Fringe: From Agricultural to Imagined Countryside"
Relates the story of the development of distinct landscapes and ambiences on the urban fringe in three eastern US counties.
UN Declaration on Cities
UN releases “Declaration on Cities and Other Human Settlements in the New Millennium.”
Habitat II Conference
The Habitat II UN Conference on Human Settlements takes place in Istanbul in 1996.
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John Franklin Surveys Canadian Arctic
Franklin makes his second expedition to the Canadian Arctic in the hope of finding a shorter sea route from Europe to Asia.
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