The article analyzes the interaction between security and environment in the Mediterranean, focusing on the paradigmatic example of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict over water resources in the Jordan River basin.
Content Index
Covers the content of this issue’s analysis of modern environmental systems, and how these systems have changed over time.
Since its foundation in 1703, the history of St. Petersburg is closely linked to the Neva River. The Neva is the biggest and the most important river in the Eastern Baltic. The citizens of St. Petersburg constructed complex technologies of river control that enabled them to live cheek by jowl with the mighty and self-willed stream.
The 1831 cholera riot in St. Petersburg was an extreme result of the city’s immense water pollution problem and led to social conflict between the educated classes and the poor people.
An overview, in German, of the discipline of environmental history.
An in-depth examination of how uranium, the natural resource on which the nuclear power industry depends, is extracted.
Stefania Barca presents an environmental history of the Industrial Revolution, through the lens of the Liri River Valley.
Economic historian Paolo Malanima reviews a work of ambitious scale by geographer Ian Gordon Simmons.
Eric Rutkow shows that trees were essential to the early years of the republic and indivisible from the country’s rise as both an empire and a civilization.
The first major oil price crisis shocks Western industrial nations and initiates a long history of price fluctuations of this finite resource.