About this collection

The interdisciplinary academic journal Environment and History is published by the White Horse Press. Its intention is to to bring scholars in the humanities and biological sciences closer together, with the aim of constructing long and well-founded perspectives on present day environmental problems. (Text adapted from the journal’s homepage).

The Environment & Society Portal offers a growing selection of representative articles from the journal.

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"Winds of Colonisation: The Meteorological Contours of Spain's Imperium in the Pacific 1521–1898"
Bankoff, Greg 		01/02/2006
"Bowhead Whales in the Eastern Arctic, 1611–1911: Population Reconstruction with Historical Whaling"
Allen, Robert C., and Ian Keay 		01/02/2006
"The Rivers Come: Colonial Flood Control and Knowledge Systems in the Indus Basin, 1840s–1930s"
Weil, Benjamin 		01/02/2006
"Working in the Mangroves and Beyond: Scientific Forestry and the Labour Question in Early Colonial Tanzania"
Sunseri, Thaddeus 		01/11/2005
"Was Brazilian Industrialisation Fuelled by Wood? Evaluating the Wood Hypothesis, 1900–1960"
Brannstrom, Christian 		01/11/2005
"A Dense and Sickly Mist from Thousands of Bog Fires: An Attempt to Compare the Energy Consumption in Slash-and-Burn Cultivation and Burning Cultivation of Peatlands in Finland in 1820–1920"
Kunnas, Jan 		01/11/2005
"Reconciling Foreshore Development and Dune Erosion on Three Queensland Beaches: An Historical Perspective"
Danaher, Mike 		01/11/2005
"Antecedents to the Community Wildlife Conservation Programme in Kenya, 1946–1964"
Matheka, Reuben 		01/08/2005
"Hunting Narratives of the Age of Empire: A Gender Reading of their Iconography"
Wonders, Karen 		01/08/2005
"The Last European Landscape to be Colonised: A Case Study of Land-Use Change in the Far North of Sweden 1850–1930"
Andersson, Rikard, Lars Östlund, and Erik Törnlund 		01/08/2005
Smith, Alison K., "Public Works in an Autocratic State: Water Supplies in an Imperial Russian Town"
Smith, Alison K. 		01/08/2005
"How the Coast Became High: An Historical Introduction to the High Coast (Hoega kusten) World Heritage Site in Sweden"
Nordlund, Christer 		01/05/2005
"If John Muir Had Been an Agrarian: American Environmental History West and South"
Stewart, Mart A. 		01/05/2005
"Overseeing the Family of Whitefishes: The Priorities and Debates of Coregonid Management on America's Great Lakes, 1870–2000"
Chiarappa, Michael J. 		01/05/2005
"Deforestation, Forest Transitions, and Institutions for Sustainability in Southeastern Mexico, 1900–2000"
Barton Bray, David, and Peter Klepeis 		01/05/2005