"Editorial" for Environment and History 4, no.2, Australia special issue (June, 1998)
There is an urgency and a fracture to Australian environmental history…
There is an urgency and a fracture to Australian environmental history…
Through readings of the works of artist/sculptor Ilana Halperin and poet Alice Oswald, David Farrier explores the idea of Anthropocene as marked by haunted time.
In this special issue on Disempowering Democracies, Emmanuel O. Nuesiri critically examines the United Nations’ REDD and REDD+ programmes (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation plus the sustainable management of forest and enhancement of carbon stocks) in Nigeria and finds them to exclude politically weak rural people.
Pedro Brancalion is a professor of forest restoration at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. In this presentation, he discusses the results of his research conducted in the Atlantic Forest in Brazil. He applies these results to other tropical forests across the globe, stressing the importance of global restoration implementation.
In “Another Silent Spring,” historian Donald Worster explains how human relations with other animals, wild and domestic, is at the core of a majority of epidemics.
The bat guano rush of 2007–2008 helped to initiate farmer experimentation with waste on northern Pemba Island.
A chapter of the virtual exhibition “Beyond Doom and Gloom: An Exploration through Letters,” this letter shows apprecation to the hopeful spirit of Rachel Carson. The exhibition is curated by environmental educator Elin Kelsey.
In episode 42 of Nature’s Past, a podcast on Canadian environmental history, Sean Kheraj interviews David Boyd about his new book The Right to a Healthy Environment: Revitalizing Canada’s Constitution and discusses whether Canadians have a constitutional right to live in a healthy environment.
The fifth episode of the Crosscurrents podcast series, John Sandlos interviews Ashlee Cunsolo on the concept of ecological grief among indigenous communities in Labrador, Canada; Sean Kheraj speaks about the history of the Trans Mountain Pipeline Project.
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Stephen J. Pyne is interviewed on his recent book, The Pyrocene: How We Created an Age of Fire, and What Happens Next.