Content Index

"Imperial Ethos, Dominions Reality: Forestry Education in New Zealand and Australia, 1910–1965"

The forces that started formal forestry education in Australia and New Zealand from 1910 and 1924 respectively are traced.

"Forest Conservation and the Reciprocal Timber Trade between New Zealand and New South Wales, 1880s–1920s"

The magnitude of this two-way trade created domestic timber shortages on both sides of the Tasman Sea, and stimulated conservation efforts from the early years of the twentieth century.

"Environmental Failure, Success and Sustainable Development: The Hauraki Plains Wetlands Through Four Generations of New Zealanders"

Taking a long-term approach following one family of Pakeha through four generations of interaction with the Hauraki Plains wetlands, this study argues that the environmental transformation that happened there was less a question of culture than of a specific time and place (context of civilisation).

"The Banks Peninsula Forests and Akaroa Cocksfoot: Explaining a New Zealand Forest Transition"

This paper traces the dynamic of a rapid transition from forest to grass on Banks Peninsula, South Island, New Zealand, from 1850 to 1900, as well as the subsequent partial transition back towards forest.

"The Environmental Footprint of War"

This article addresses the direct impacts of war on the physical landscape and why the magnitude of disturbance has increased significantly over the past century.

"Biodiversity and Traditional Land Use in South-Central Sweden: The Significance of Management Timing"

During the last 50–100 years, large numbers of species associated with semi-natural grassland have declined. One reason for this is the considerable reduction of grassland area. Another possible explanation is the loss of historical management practices.

"Riding the Tide: Indigenous Knowledge, History and Water in a Changing Australia"

This paper discusses the contested and relational nature of indigeneity and challenges the ahistorical conceptualisation of indigenous knowledge.

"A Native American System of Wetland Agriculture in Different Ecosystems in the Ecuadorian Andes (15th–18th Centuries)"

In this paper, Caillavet identifies a range of archival sources which provide evidence of the nature, functions, and ecology of agricultural techniques in the northern Ecuadorian highlands.

“Three Dimensions of Environmental History”

This essay maintains that environmental historians should increasingly investigate theoretical aspects of their subject, and encourages more prevalent reasoned discourse between multiple viewpoints.

"Return to Eden: Van Diemen's Land and the Early British Settlement of Australia"

Tasmania (formerly known as Van Diemen’s Land) received approximately 72,000 convicts, mainly from the British Isles and Ireland, between 1803 and 1853. This article focuses on the environmental experience of this unusual settler population, especially in the first decades of settlement.