Roundtable Review of Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway
Why do we continue to talk about the debate over global warming as if it were a scientific controversy?
climate change
World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF)
The WWF is one of the world’s biggest environmental protection organizations with more than five million supporters worldwide.
"Historical Evidence for Climate Instability and Environmental Catastrophes in Northern Syria and the Jazira: The Chronicle of Michael the Syrian"
The article argues that diversified subsistence and a high degree of flexibility were essential for ancient Mesopotamian societies to absorb the many risks that life in this marginal semiarid environment involved.
"Environmental Anxiety in New Zealand, 1840–1941: Climate Change, Soil Erosion, Sand Drift, Flooding and Forest Conservation"
The history of environmental anxiety in nineteenth- and twentieth-century New Zealand can be traced by focusing on problems caused by deforestation.
"Forestry and Flooding in the Annecy Petit Lac Catchment, Haute-Savoie 1730–2000"
This paper attempts to demonstrate the nature of human impact on forest cover and flooding in the Annecy Petit Lac Catchment in pre-Alpine Haute Savoie, France, between 1730 and 2000.
"Human-Environment Relationships in the Pacific Islands around AD 1300"
This paper traces the history of human-environment interactions in the Pacific Islands during the last millennium, focusing on three main periods: the Little Climatic Optimum, the Little Ice Age, and, in greatest detail, the transition around AD 1300 between the two.
"Editorial: Letter from Canberra"
As the millennium approaches it seems that environmental historians are increasingly drawn to the task of writing world history…
"Human Factors, Extreme Events and Floods in the Lower Po Plain (Northern Italy) in the 16th Century"
Research on climatic variations in the sixteenth century has stressed the exceptionality of extreme events, but the case of the lower Po basin, where lack of instrumental data renders the concept of exceptionality complex and relative, shows that this is not necessarily valid.
"Land Improvement or Institutionalised Destruction? The Ringbarking Controversy, 1879–1884, and the Emergence of a Conservation Ethic in New South Wales"
Ringbarking, as a means of destroying trees, was known and practised from the earliest years of British settlement in New South Wales…
"Editorial" for Environment and History 3, no. 3, (Oct., 1997)
This issue of Environment and History completes a third year of the new journal, and presents a useful opportunity for reflection about the state of the discipline.