“War and Natural Resources in History: Introduction”
This paper examines how natural resources have been an important motive, target, and resource for warfare throughout human history.
This paper examines how natural resources have been an important motive, target, and resource for warfare throughout human history.
The transformation of the Sampangi Lake into the present-day Sri Kanteerava Stadium.
This article explores the prospects and politics of indigenous participation in multi-sector conservation, using the case of the Boreal Leadership Council (BLC) in Canada. It concludes that multi-sector conservation creates both new possibilities for indigenous empowerment and new forms of marginalization through the reproduction of a (post)colonial geography of exclusion.
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Gonzalo Lizarralde is interviewed on his recent book, Unnatural Disasters: Why Most Responses to Risk and Climate Change Fail But Some Succeed.
A farmer on the !Garib/Orange river in Namibia uses historical flood markers to challenge eviction in the post-apartheid landscape.
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, William Carruthers is interviewed on his recent book, Flooded Pasts: UNESCO, Nubia, and the Recolonization of Archaeology.
A reflection on the use of images in environmental history.