This working paper was produced in early 2020 by Andrea Gaynor, Carla Pascoe Leahy, Ruth Morgan, Daniel May and Yves Rees1 to start a conversation about how academic historians can help to address the climate and biodiversity crises in their professional practice. We are delighted to be able to contribute to its further dissemination and … More Working paper on sustainable history: the responsibilities of academic historians in a climate-impacted world

Courtesy of our friends at Halac, here is a Spanish-language profile of Tim Killeen’s A Perfect Storm in the Amazon Wilderness, the first chapter of which was published Open Access last month. Timothy J. Killeen presenta su nueva e importante monografía de acceso abierto, que será publicada en serie por The White Horse Press a … More Spanish-language Profile of Timothy J. Killeen’s A Perfect Storm in the Amazon Wilderness

Have you ever wondered how the brightly coloured environment maps we’re all familiar with are actually produced? If you read William Rankin’s article ‘The Accuracy Trap’ you’ll never look at these maps in quite the same way again.  Published last year as a fast track article in Environment and History, ‘The Accuracy Trap’ has just … More 2021 TARR ENVIROTECH ARTICLE PRIZE AWARDED TO BILL RANKIN’S ‘THE ACCURACY TRAP’

In this blog, originally published as the ICEHO pages in Global Environment 14.1 (Feb. 2021), Stefan Dorondel argues that ecological restoration should be (re)connected with local people and engaged citizens, rather than being undertaken as a top-down project. Check out his ‘Danislands’ project on Facebook. I write this short piece as the second wave of … More OPENING A TECHNICAL FIELD. ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION, LOCAL KNOWLEDGE AND CITIZEN SCIENCE

In this blog, originally published as the ESEH Notepad in Environment and History 27.1, Katie Holmes (Chair, ESEH diversity Committee) introduces an important new committee of ESEH. In 2020 the ESEH President Marco Armiero established a Diversity Committee with a brief to: 1. Analyse the diversity performance of our society since its foundation (the composition … More THE ESEH DIVERSITY COMMITTEE

Today’s blog by Matthew P. Johnson relates his article in Environment and History ‘Thirsty Sugar Lands’: Environmental Impacts of Dams and Empire in Puerto Rico Since 1898‘, (online first Autumn 2019, due in print August 2021) to the recent United Nations University report on ageing dams. In September 1928, Hurricane San Felipe, one of the … More Puerto Rico’s Ageing Dams

Timothy J. Killeen introduces his important new Open Access monograph, which will be published serially by The White Horse Press from Spring 2021 and in two e-volumes and a print edition in 2022. The master ISBN for the serial publication and e-volumes will be ISBN 978-1-912186-22-8. The book is essential reading for all those interested in the … More A Perfect Storm in The Amazon Wilderness. Success and failure in the fight to save an ecosystem of critical importance to the planet

In this blog Christian Wenkel introduces his co-edited (with Eric Bussière, Anahita Grisoni and Hélène Miard-Delacroix) collection, The Environment and the European Public Sphere: Perceptions, Actors, Policies (WHP 2020). The book was recently profiled, with a lengthy free excerpt on the Rachel Carson Center‘s Environment and Society Portal. Is it child’s play to formulate environmental … More Does the European level matter in terms of Environmental issues?

First of an occasional blog series that revisits books from the WHP back catalogue, William Beinart introduces his co-edited (with Simon Pooley and Karen Middleton) collection, Wild Things: Nature and the Social Imagination. (2013: ISBN 978-1-874267-75-1 (HB) £65.00/€75.00/$95.00; ISBN 978-1-874267-93-5 (PB) £25.00/€33.00/$40.00) Wild Things includes a substantial introductory essay and eleven chapters addressing cultural aspects of … More From the Back Catalogue: Wild Things

In today’s blog, Saverio Krätli, editor of Nomadic Peoples introduces the Special Section in the forthcoming issue (25.1, March 2021)discussing David Attenborough’s A Life on our Planet. Breathtaking images from a lifetime of documentary making flow on the screen, but this is no ordinary nature documentary. Once stripped down to the bone, the message is … More A LIFE ON OUR PLANET: REFLECTIONS ON PASTORALISM, DEVELOPMENT AND CLIMATE CHANGE