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