Controversy over the claim that sugar depleted the soil and stunted subsequent rice crops reached a stalemate when both sugar scientists and their critics were accused of selectively choosing evidence according to political bias…
During the twentieth century, two different ways of relating with nature interacted in Panama…
Based on a case study of the Central Rainlands of Sudan, the paper challenges the assumptions and principles underlying the tragedy of the commons model and the property rights paradigm with regard to sustainability of resources owned in common.
The paper provides a case study of the range of preoccupations which the statutory planner, agricultural interests and mineral developer brought to bear on the conflict arising from the early twentieth-century development of the Yorkshire ‘concealed’ coalfield.
Hassan comes to the subject from an economic history perspective, and the central theme of the book is the development, and the changing orientations of water policy.
This article describes the process involved in creating a watershed model for the upper Konto watershed area in Java.
Ringbarking, as a means of destroying trees, was known and practised from the earliest years of British settlement in New South Wales…
While gender-blindness has characterised much writing on colonial environmental history, women have assumed center-stage in the historical narratives produced by two linked contemporary policy discourses: ecofeminism, and ‘women, environment and development.’
The efforts of both anthropologists and historians have been weakened by a failure to take into account what the other half were doing…
Recent and current environmental legislation in Nepal is described, and its relation to sustainable development analysed.
