Encountering the Past in Nature: Essays in Environmental History
This small collection of essays by Finnish scholars establishes the basic tenets of environmental history as a field of inquiry.
This small collection of essays by Finnish scholars establishes the basic tenets of environmental history as a field of inquiry.
This study examines the debates on, and processes of, land reform in Zimbabwe during the independence era, exploring the social, economic, and political contexts of perceptions of land redistribution and management.
A comprehensive history of the Adirondack mountain range in the eastern United States.
While the evolution of community wildlife conservation in the country from the late 1970s tends to be portrayed as a programme without antecedents, this paper demonstrates that attempts to involve Africans in wildlife conservation in Kenya have a long history.
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.
This article discusses the history of wildlife conservation in Malawi from the beginning of the colonial period to the present day. It concludes by suggesting a new approach to wildlife conservation in Africa.
The non-profit organization’s main goal is the protection of endangered species.
This book is the first to identify the population of each known species in the United States.
Dedicated under US President Ulysses S. Grant, Yellowstone becomes not just the world’s first national park, but also one of its most famous.