national parks

How a site in San Francisco that had been a military base for much of its modern history became a unique, urban national park.

An analysis of public parks in the United States, from a communitarian perspective.

A history of constructed and designed landscapes in the United States’ national parks.

Wilko Graf von Hardenberg, Carson Fellow from November 2010 to February 2011, talks about his research on Alpine nature conservation and resource management.

This essay charts and reflects on developments in the environmental history of the Americas over the past decade, arguing that the field has become more inclusive and complex as it tackles a broader spectrum of physical environments and moves beyond an emphasis on destructiveness and loss as the essence of relations between humans and the rest of the natural world.

This article argues that during the interwar period in Australia, contrary to assertions that social, political and economic pressures stifled environmental debate, there were a wide range of interests pushing for conservation, the development of National Parks and limits on development schemes.

Based on a review of international conservation literature, three inter-related themes are explored: a) the emergence in the 1860–1910 period of new worldviews on the human-nature relationship in western culture; b) the emergence of new conservation values and the translation of these into public policy goals; and 3) the adoption of these policies by the Netherlands Indies government.

The two landscapes, Nevada Test Site and Yosemite National Park, have, on the surface, very little in common. However, in recent years, a number of nuclear and post-nuclear landscapes have been praised for attracting rare species of flora and fauna…

After centuries of seclusion, Pescasseroli and the upper Sangro River valley in Italy’s central Apennine Mountains began opening to the world in the early twentieth century…

Carruthers explores the relevance of work conducted by James Stevenson-Hamilton, during his employment in the Sudan civil service, to the modern conservation doctrine of sustainable yield.