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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

Andrei Vinogradov has very kindly translated the abstracts for GE 13.3 (October 2020), a Special Issue on Reconfiguring Nature. Resource Security and the Limits of Expert Knowledge edited by John Martin and Christian Kehrt, into Russian. ВВЕДЕНИЕ. РЕКОНФИГУРАЦИЯ ПРИРОДЫ: РЕСУРСНАЯ БЕЗОПАСНОСТЬ И ПРЕДЕЛЫ ЭКСПЕРТНЫХ ЗНАНИЙ Кристиан Керт и Джон Мартин Главная цель этого специального выпуска … More Abstracts of Global Environment 13.3 in Russian

In a slightly revised version of an earlier blog on this page,  David Moon (University of York, UK), Nicholas Breyfogle (The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA) and Alexandra Bekasova (National Research University-Higher School of Economics, St Petersburg, Russia) whet your appetite for their edited collection, Place and Nature: Studies in Russian Environmental History, which … More Exploration and Place in Studying Russia’s Environmental History

This blog by Roberta Biasillo, Elizabeth Hameeteman, Elena Kochetkova, Noémi Ujházy, Monique Palma, Simone Schleper, Adam Wickberg is a slightly updated version of the ESEH Notepad published in the November 2020 issue of Environment and History. How can we walk the talk of sustainability on a daily basis in our working environments? How can we … More EARLY-CAREER ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORIANS FOR A SUSTAINABLE ACADEMIA

In today’s blog, Ana Lucia Camphora, whose book Animals and Society in Brazil will be published by WHP in Spring 2021 spotlights the ongoing ecological damage to a unique Brazilian ecosystem.  It is 31 October 2020, smoke still billows from the soil in some places in Brazil’s Pantanal,  the result of fire that has penetrated deeply … More History, environment and poetry: multiple narratives of the nature-cultures of the Brazilian Pantanal

Today’s blog introduces Alice Would’s new article in Environment and History (Fast-track December 2020), ‘Tactile Taxidermy: The Revival of Animal Skins in the Early Twentieth Century Museum’ In 2019, Bristol Museum veiled the endangered and vulnerable taxidermy animals in its World Wildlife Gallery for the Extinction Voices exhibition. Black fabric was draped either across display cabinets, or … More Museum Specimens across Time

In this article, which first appeared as the ICEHO pages in Global Environment 13.3 (October 2020), Verena Winiwarter (Institute of Social Ecology Vienna (SEC) Department of Economics and Social Sciences (WiSo) University of Natural Resources & Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU)) offers an environmental history perspective on UN Agenda 2030. In 2015, the UN adopted an … More AN ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY PERSPECTIVE ON THE UN AGENDA 2030 (‘SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS’)

In today’s blog, Luz Gonçalves Brito (UFRGS, Brazil) and Gustavo Chiesa (Unipampa) introduce their new article in Environmental Values, ‘Learning to Walk with Turtles: Steps Towards a Sacred Perception of the Environment’ Phenomenology has always been concerned with experience and perception. This branch of the philosophical tree has provided enormous challenges to us, as thinkers, in … More Diving into the environment, enlivening phenomenological landscapes

With many thanks to Andrei Vinogradov who kindly undertook the translation of this issue on ‘Waste as Resource’, published in October 2017. Введение в исследования экософского метаболизма Матиас Ролло и Крис Юнес Чтобы показать силу и уникальность экософскогоподхода, мы предлагаем междисциплинарную работу между философией, экологией и исследованиями дизайна. Для этого наши исследования развивают идею переработки,её исторических отношений … More Abstracts of Global Environment 10 (2) in Russian

European Society for Environmental History (ESEH) Conference. LAST WEEK!  Deadline 7 November 2020 Sandra Swart on how you can and why you should submit a proposal for next year’s ESEH Conference in Bristol Our earth is abruptly alien to us: we are locked down, locked up and locked out. Right now, our old ways of living have … More Rethinking the Doomsday Machine