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In this blog, John Cropper introduces his new article in Environment and History, ‘Growing a World Wonder’: The Great Green Wall and the History of Environmental Decline in the Sahel, 1450–2022 (online first March 2023), which argues that the Great Green Wall Initiative gave new life to the ‘declinist’ narrative of the African environment and … More ‘Growing a World Wonder’: Problematising the Great Green Wall

Today’s blog by Mica Jorgenson is associated with her just-published article in Environment and History, Wild Smoke: Managing Forest Pollution in Northern British Columbia since 1950 (online first February 2023). Co-publication with NiCHE ‘A bank of pale gray smoke pours into the bay from the north and rolls over the water, engulfing the freighters in … More Wild Smoke: Forest Fires and Air Pollution in BC since 1950

Today’s blog by Dotan Halevy relates to his article published recently in Environment and History (online first 2022): Sand and the City: On Colonial Development and its Evasive Enemies in Twentieth-Century Palestine Aldo Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac (1949) brings together two decades of thinking and writing about land, landscape, flora, fauna, and the system that ties them … More Sands, Lupines and the Ecology of the Uncultivable