In this mini-blog, Amy Hay presents her poster from the ESEH conference in Zagreb. We think posters never get the exposure they deserve! The late-nineteenth century saw a dramatic alteration in the landscape of the Rio Grande Valley, located in the southmost tip of Texas. For much of the preceding centuries the region had been … More Making the Magic Valley: Water, Wealth, and Health in the Rio Grande Valley

Onur Inal describes the genesis of the first ever conference on Ottoman and Turkish Environmental History, some of whose proceedings will form a White Horse Press edited collection in 2018. Environmental history is a very slowly growing field in Ottoman and Turkish studies and it still gets a stepchild treatment from the scholars of the … More Towards the First Conference on the Environmental History of the Ottoman Empire and Turkey

Christopher Preston, whose co-authored article with Wylie Carr, ‘Skewed Vulnerabilities and Moral Corruption in Global Perspectives on Climate Engineering’,  is published in Environmental Values 26.6, December 2017) here offers some thoughts on the controversial issue of climate engineering amid fears that, in terms of environmental justice, it could prove ‘a bad way out of a dire situation’. … More Perspectives from the Front Lines of Climate Engineering

Stefano Biagetti, co-editor with Tim Howe of the current Special Issue of Nomadic Peoples on ‘Ancient Pastoralisms’ (Nomadic Peoples 21.2) introduces the issue and reflects on the disciplinary changes it both draws upon and heralds. When I landed for the first time in my life in the central Sahara I had just obtained my first … More Variability is the key: thoughts on ancient pastoralisms