This study examines the role of colonial foresters in introducing new socioeconomic arrangements that resulted in increased poverty among the Tonga, Shona, and Ndebele communities in the Gwai Forest Reserve of North-Western Matabeleland, Zimbabwe.
The modernization, the declinist, and the inclinist paradigms of the late twentieth century, despite their differences, all tended to frame environmental change in a unilinear Nature-to-Culture fashion, which in turn entailed homogenizing the agency, process, and outcome of environmental change. This article examines the characteristics of each paradigm, as well as some of the paradoxes that have arisen in their wake. Finally, it looks to alternative approaches.
In this book, David Biggs explores the actual uses of land and water in Vietnam through its troubled history.
An environmental history of the Atlantic Forest in Brazil from pre-modern times to the late twentieth century.
Experts in history, history of science, archaeology, geography, and environmental studies examine the history of the region.
An interdisciplinary explanation of why Europeans and people of European descent have come to control so much of the world’s wealth.
Rothman considers how the negative consequences of tourism development in the American West potentially outweigh the economic prosperity it brings to communities.
This essay explores the dynamics of failure to strike a solution to the problem of invasive species in the form of water hyacinth through an examination of the competing domains of bureaucracy, science and private commercial interests in a colonial context.
The completion of the original Aswan Dam fundamentally changes Egypt’s irrigation system.
The Suez Canal is completed under French supervision and becomes one of the world’s most important waterways.
