The history of local resource management of forests, water, land, and pastures in the upper Duero basin of Spain from the Reconquest to the liberal administrative reforms of the nineteenth century is discussed.
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This multi-authored collection examines the complex interrelations between societies in different parts of the world and the soils they relied on from the perspectives of geomorphology, archaeology, pedology, and history.
Timothy LeCain, Carson Fellow from September 2011 to May 2012, discusses his comparative history of Japanese and American copper mining.
Paul Josephson discusses the project he worked on during his Carson Fellowship, from August to December 2011: an environmental history of the Soviet Arctic.
Stefan Dorondel, Carson fellow from July to December 2010, is an anthropologist interested in post-socialist land tenure systems and in land use change. In the interview he talks about “Transforming Socialist Landscape.”
The Albert National Park (later renamed Virunga) in the Belgian Congo becomes the first National Park in Africa.
A report by the Ministry of Environment and Forests, India, on securing a future for Gajah (the elephant) in India, its continued survival in the wild and its humane care in captivity.
A comparative analysis of the reception of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring in the United States and in the UK.
Horace Herring explores the history of nuclear energy and its reception shortly after a Tsunami hit the North East coast of Japan in March 2011, causing a nuclear disaster at the Fukushima One nuclear power plant.
This book links the environmental movement that emerged in the United States during the 1960s to earlier progressive movements and considers the importance of race, ethnicity, class, and gender issues for the history and evolution of environmentalism.