Devil's Bargains: Tourism in the Twentieth-Century American West
Rothman considers how the negative consequences of tourism development in the American West potentially outweigh the economic prosperity it brings to communities.
Rothman considers how the negative consequences of tourism development in the American West potentially outweigh the economic prosperity it brings to communities.
Experts in history, history of science, archaeology, geography, and environmental studies examine the history of the region.
An environmental history of the Atlantic Forest in Brazil from pre-modern times to the late twentieth century.
The modernization, the declinist, and the inclinist paradigms of the late twentieth century, despite their differences, all tended to frame environmental change in a unilinear Nature-to-Culture fashion, which in turn entailed homogenizing the agency, process, and outcome of environmental change. This article examines the characteristics of each paradigm, as well as some of the paradoxes that have arisen in their wake. Finally, it looks to alternative approaches.
For one month, we are able to follow an assistant forester on his daily rounds about the province of Capiz on Panay Island, as the forest was transformed from a resource and a refuge into an arena where state management practices and indigenous customary rights competed alongside those who saw trees as nothing more than a commercial enterprise.
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.
Do we owe the world-famous Kruger National Park to the triumph of “good” conservationists over the forces of “evil” commercial exploitation? Environmental historian Jane Carruthers investigates.
A closer examination of India’s monetary history reveals that there exist many similarities between the effects of structural adjustment programs and those of monetary disturbances in the last quarter of the nineteenth century due to the depreciation of the rupee.
A glowing review of a synthesis of some of the key themes in the study of environmental history as it relates to Latin America.
A collection of essays that explore the “paper landscapes” of the colonial literature and archives in search of the real environmental history of Indonesia.