This blog, arranged by Sandra Swart, was first published in Environment and History as the ESEH Notepad, February 2025. It focuses on the ESEH NEXTGATe team which supports early career scholars. In strong support of our early-career ESEH members, the Next Generation Action Team (NEXTGATe) has been going almost six years now – or almost … More ESEH NOTEPAD. NEXTGATe REPORT BACK
In this blog, originally published as an Environment and History ‘Snapshot’ in August 2024, Dimitrios Bormpoudakis uses the case of forced exile in Greek islands to illustrate how ecologies of displacement matter in adapting to climate change. ‘Narratives of the [past] matter in climate adaptation’.[1] Following this cue, I argue that environmental histories about displacement matter … More ‘THE LIGHT OF DAY WAS OUR COMRADE’: ECOLOGIES OF FORCED DISPLACEMENT AND THE CHALLENGE OF UNFAMILIAR ENVIRONMENTS
In this blog, originally published as the ICEHO pages in Global Environment 17.3 Jonatan Palmblad advocates for a renewed scholarship of synthesis – the ability to bridge theory and practice, history, present and future – and even the physical and the metaphysical It was the Spanish-American philosopher George Santayana who observed that ‘Those who cannot remember the … More ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY’S USABLE PAST: ON REVIVING THE SCHOLARSHIP OF SYNTHESIS
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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