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Publisher of Books and Journals on Environment, History and Society

MONUMENTAL TREES, OR THE PHENOMENOLOGICAL GUARDIANS OF THE LANDSCAPE

February 27, 2025

This blog by Tomasz Związek on trees as ‘memorial anchors’ was originally a Snapshot in Environment and History (August 2024). The journal is currently seeking pitches for this year’s Snapshots: find out more here. Trees of my Fatherland! if Heaven grants that I return to behold you, old friends, shall I find you still? Do ye still … More MONUMENTAL TREES, OR THE PHENOMENOLOGICAL GUARDIANS OF THE LANDSCAPE

THE EXTRA-PLANETARY MINE: SPACE MINING AS CONTINUITY

February 19, 2025

This blog reproduces the Environment and History ‘Snapshot’ on space expansionism by Thomas Cheney first published in August 2024. Snapshots is now open for a new round of submissions. Please contact Deputy Editor Tyson Luneau with your pitches for 200 word essays that push the boundaries of environmental history. Space expansionists argue that outer space … More THE EXTRA-PLANETARY MINE: SPACE MINING AS CONTINUITY

Visions of Sustainability: Global Environment Special Issue

February 13, 2025

In this blog, Laura Meneghello introduces the latest, fully Open Access, issue of Global Environment, which she guest-edited – a Special Issue on ‘Visions of Sustainability’. Visions of sustainability have substantially shaped relations between humans and the environment. Besides being a reaction to economic issues and environmental problems, they were also linked with ideas of … More Visions of Sustainability: Global Environment Special Issue

Enough is Enough: A View from Tonga on Biodiversity

February 3, 2025

In this blog Tom Greaves, Editor of Environmental Values introduces a discourse on sustainability delivered by Elisiva Sunia at COP16 in Colombia. The following discourse was delivered by Elisiva Sunia at the 16th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP 16) in Cali, Colombia, October–November 2024. Elisiva attended the … More Enough is Enough: A View from Tonga on Biodiversity

The Overstory: An Ecomodernist Fable? 

January 28, 2025

In this blog Thomas Storey develops the ideas on the entanglement of technology and ecology in his recently published article in Plant Perspectives, ‘Media Ecologies and Transcendent Technology in Richard Powers’s “The Overstory”’ (December 2024). Richard Powers’s 2018 novel The Overstory is regarded as one of the central texts of contemporary ‘eco-lit’, a genre that addresses our … More The Overstory: An Ecomodernist Fable? 

Climates and cultures in History – Volume 1 Editorial

January 14, 2025

This blog reproduces the editorial by editors Franz Mauelshagen, Nicola Di Cosmo and Eleonora Rohland of the first volume of the peer reviewed Open Access journal Climates and Cultures in History, which was finalised in December 2024. It sets out the vision of the journal and invites new submissions (via our online system). It is … More Climates and cultures in History – Volume 1 Editorial

Moving Past Metaphor: Plant Relations and Creative Resistance at COP16

December 12, 2024

In this blog, Kristina van Dexter, one of the Creative Submissions editors of Plant Perspectives reflects on the ‘Peace with Nature’ theme and plant iconography of last month’s COP16 in Colombia and urges the importance of ‘moving past metaphor’. The 16th Conference of the Parties (COP16) to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity concluded … More Moving Past Metaphor: Plant Relations and Creative Resistance at COP16

Eel fisheries and environmental heritage in Northwest Denmark

November 18, 2024

In this blog, Bo Poulsen reflects on the lost culture of eel fishing, and consumption on Denmark’s Limfjord, as explored in his new co-authored article in Environment and History, ‘Seasonal Migrants and Traditional Ecological Knowledge in a Region of Risk: The Pulse Seine Fisheries in Limfjorden, Denmark, c.1740–1860‘, with Camilla Andersen (ahead of print, October … More Eel fisheries and environmental heritage in Northwest Denmark

On Remembering Resilience: Climate Change, Agriculture, and Covid-19 in 1740 and 2021

October 21, 2024

In today’s blog, Emma Moesswilde takes her recently published article in Environment and History, Practising Cold Weather: English Agricultural Discourse and Memory, 1739–1800 (online first, September 2024) as a jumping off point to discuss memory and forgetting of extreme change, and the opportunity to become a more empathetic historian. Historians who scour the past to … More On Remembering Resilience: Climate Change, Agriculture, and Covid-19 in 1740 and 2021

Environment and History’s 30th birthday!

October 2, 2024

This blog is the editorial to the just-published 30th anniversary issue of Environment and History. The issue contains loads free-to-read and Open Access content so do take a look. Here’s to the next 30 years! This issue marks the thirtieth anniversary of the founding of Environment and History, one of the longest established international journals in … More Environment and History’s 30th birthday!