The Edges of Environmental History: Honouring Jane Carruthers
This volume of RCC Perspectives, featuring artwork by Australian artist Mandy Martin, is a tribute to the wonderful career of Jane Carruthers.
This volume of RCC Perspectives, featuring artwork by Australian artist Mandy Martin, is a tribute to the wonderful career of Jane Carruthers.
The animated film charts the growth of humanity into a global force on an equivalent scale to major geological processes.
The close coexistence of multiple worldviews, which I identify in their most extreme incarnations as indigenous and mestizo, are key to understanding the environmental history of the Tropical Andes from the nineteenth century.
Over time, the peoples living in Latin America’s diverse landscapes have developed complex and varied ways of understanding the world around them. For much of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the main goal of the sciences was to keep Latin America’s “prodigal” landscapes as productive as possible. Since the mid-twentieth century, a new countercurrent has emerged, which focuses on using science to conserve biological diversity, and to promote sustainability.
This article discusses la bête du Gévaudan, a wolf or wolves that terrorized parts of the French populace between 1764 and 1767.
This article argues in favour of “audacity”: employing the practice of history fully to tell a complex story involving conservation science.
In 1969, the Georgian resort of Pitsunda and its beach were severely damaged by a storm. This was largely due to an ongoing process of coastal erosion caused by anthropogenic influences.
In 1862, Wilhelm von Blandowski produced The Encyclopedia of Australia as a large visual atlas of 142 plates dedicated to a comprehensive representation of the continent Australia.
This article blurs the boundaries of literature, agriculture, public history, grassroots political activism, and public policymaking in order to problematize the current eco-cosmopolitan trajectory of ecocritical theory.
Mick Smith examines how a posthumanist notion of ecological community might attempt to address questions concerning extinction.