The first issue of next year’s Environment and History will be a Special Issue on Parks and Gardens that emerged from the 2015 ESEH conference in Versailles. What follows is the introduction to the issue by editors Karen Jones and James Beattie. In this special issue on garden and environmental history we venture into the … More ‘Leaping the Fence’: A taster of the forthcoming Special Issue of Environment and History on Parks and Gardens

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

By Andrew Stuhl, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, Bucknell University. Andrew’s co-authored article with Pey-Yi Chu, ‘Reorienting World Environmental History: Pedagogy and Scholarship on Cold Places’ has just been published in Environment and History 23.4, November 2017.  Cold places appear to be natural subjects for environmental history. In these locations—the Arctic, Antarctica, Siberia, and mountain-top regions—nature and society … More Are Cold Places, by Nature, Exemplars of Environmental History?*

By Adam Izdebski, with contributions from Piotr Guzowski, Małgorzata Praczyk and Tomasz Samojlik. This blog was originally published as the ESEH Notepad pages in Environment and History 23.3, August 2017.  Interest in environmental history in Polish academia is of relatively recent origin. At the same time, there is a very strong presence of historical geography (related … More Environmental History in Poland: Research projects, recent events and publications

A Provocation by Verena Winiwarter, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, and Response by Ruth Morgan, Monash University. We are privileged to count Verena as a longstanding Editorial Board Member for Environment and History and Global Environment; and Ruth is the newest E&H Board member. Ruth is in the early stages of projecting a workshop and Special Issue of Environment … More Gender and Environmental History – A Call to Arms