The Spanish Law of common lands reduction (1855) ordered the Forester Corps (Public Works Department) to prepare a survey of grazing lands, scrublands and woodlands to be sold and the ones to be retained…
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This article proposes a strong role for environmental history in informing current policy and debate in the policy field of sustainability (or, sustainable development).
The influence of scientific forestry in southwestern Cameroon (today Southwest Province) is examined.
Industrialising cities of the 19th century are seen as lax in environmental matters. However, Manchester took a strong stand against air pollution.
Reconstructing the environment of Lesotho in order to assess soil erosion at different time scales, highlights conflicting views about the initiation of accelerated erosion.
Drawing on historical and environmental research, this essay examines long-term trends in the ways that mining affected labour and the environment in Latin America.
Prasad counters the proposition that pre-colonial, caste-based, natural resource management regimes were superior, in terms of stability and coherence, to colonial regimes.
This paper examines the social history of Kalahandi in western Orissa over the 1800–1950 period, in an attempt to explore the roots of the famine which haunts the region even today.
This paper describes a regional case study of the history of forestry practices in the north-eastern part of the central plateau of Switzerland during the nineteenth century, based on an analysis of official documents connected with forestry.
Thomas Pringle (1789–1834) was perhaps the most famous of the British settlers who landed at the Cape in 1820…