Fiona Cameron, Carson Fellow from August 2011 until March 2012, talks about her research on ‘Museums, Education, and Climate Change’ at the intersections between science, technology and nature.
Joseph Szarka presents and evaluates environmental policy-making in France at a time when environmental problems are growing in complexity and gravity.
This collection emphasizes that common lands were a key component of early-modern agriculture in many parts of northwest Europe.
Colin Beavan’s year-long attempt to live ‘off the grid’ in the heart of New York City brings the environment, and his relationships, to the forefront.
This is the story of farmer Percy Schmeiser who is drawn into a struggle for justice and, ultimately, survival in the face of exploitation by a multinational corporation.
In this book Mark Carey identifies glacial retreat as a historical reality that has played a substantial role in the political, economic, and social dramas of South America.
Martin Knoll, Carson Fellow from October to March 2009, talks about his research concerning perceptions of nature and the creation of environmental knowledge in early modern topographical literature.
This multi-authored collection examines the complex interrelations between societies in different parts of the world and the soils they relied on from the perspectives of geomorphology, archaeology, pedology, and history.
While modern penal institutions exist, putatively, to transform the people held within them into law-abiding citizens, it is not generally recognised that since the early twentieth century, Australian and New Zealand penal systems have also sought to transform ‘wastelands’ into ordered, productive landscapes.
Tasmania (formerly known as Van Diemen’s Land) received approximately 72,000 convicts, mainly from the British Isles and Ireland, between 1803 and 1853. This article focuses on the environmental experience of this unusual settler population, especially in the first decades of settlement.
