Tag: environment

THE PLASTIC BAG: FROM A MUNDANE SWEDISH INNOVATION TO THE WORLD’S OCEANS

November 10, 2025

This blog, exploring ‘how the plastic bag became an iconic symbol of environmental degradation’, republishes a Snapshot by Nils Johansson, originally published in Environment and History (August 2025). The plastic bag is a mundane consumer product. It consists of just one inexpensive material, intended to carry other, more important, items. It is one of those … More THE PLASTIC BAG: FROM A MUNDANE SWEDISH INNOVATION TO THE WORLD’S OCEANS

ESEH / WHITE HORSE PRESS POSTER PRIZE – UPPSALA 2025

August 27, 2025

It was our pleasure again to sponsor the Poster Prize at the ESEH conference in Uppsala last week. The worthy winners were Andrei Vinogradov and Alexandra Raeva with their poster ‘Melting Mountains’. The poster was both graphically effective, indeed beautiful, and presented information succinctly and in a way that created an overall sense of design: … More ESEH / WHITE HORSE PRESS POSTER PRIZE – UPPSALA 2025

‘THE LIGHT OF DAY WAS OUR COMRADE’: ECOLOGIES OF FORCED DISPLACEMENT AND THE CHALLENGE OF UNFAMILIAR ENVIRONMENTS

April 2, 2025

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

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

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

Decolonising Plant Relations Through Creative Practice

July 3, 2024

In this blog, Kristina Van Dexter, Creative Submissions co-editor (with Prue Gibson) of Plant Perspectives reflects on her deep engagement with the relations and languages of plant life that compose forest-worlds. Listen closely to the language of the forest – the decay and decomposition, the generative relations of fungi and roots, the rhythmic comings and … More Decolonising Plant Relations Through Creative Practice

THE EMERGENCY HAS ALREADY HAPPENED

March 22, 2024

In this blog, originally published as a ‘Snapshot’ in Environment and History, Rebecca Duncan, Eleonor Marcussen, Mike Classon Frangos and Emily Hanscam critically interrogate the semantics and usefulness of the concept climate ’emergency’. The sense of emergency is palpable and real. But instead of naming this moment a ‘state of exception’, we should see it … More THE EMERGENCY HAS ALREADY HAPPENED

The environmental impact of mass tourism: A case study of Negril, Jamaica, 1970s-2023 

March 1, 2024

In today’s blog, Henrice Altink introduces her new article in Environment and History (online first February 2024), ‘Making Tourism Sustainable? Environment and Resort Tourism in Negril, Jamaica, 1970s–2002’. Mass tourism has had severe environmental impacts but there are hopeful signs that sustainability is becoming central to the development agenda in the 2020s. Mass tourism generates … More The environmental impact of mass tourism: A case study of Negril, Jamaica, 1970s-2023