This article examines the environmental impacts of Cantonese gold-miners in New Zealand and situates its research in both Chinese environmental history and comparative global environmental history.
Susan Lawrence and Peter Davies discuss the environmental consequences of water-resource infrastructures created during the gold rush in Victoria.
An examination of the role played by Chinese immigration to New Zealand and Australia in the understanding of the environment.
This film follows an Argentinian town which must struggle to decide whether to allow a gold mine that could reduce poverty but also uses toxic mining methods.
This film follows the inhabitants of an ancient Carpathian village as they resist its destruction by a Romanian-Canadian corporation, which plans to turn it into Europe’s largest mine for gold and silver.
This film follows Father Marco, a priest who has earned a price on his head because of his opposition to Peru’s powerful mining companies.
Fei Sheng analyzes the ecological factors in China that spurred migration to Australia at a time when the discovery of gold as a natural resource made the country an ideal migration destination. He shows how Chinese migrants applied their environmental experience in a white settler colony.
The California Gold Rush begins in 1848 when gold is discovered in Coloma, California. The promise of gold lures around 300,000 people to California and has a huge effect on the natural environment and the development of San Francisco as a world city and California as a state.