Tag: sustainability

Entire of Itself? Towards an Environmental History of Islands

April 16, 2024

In this blog, Milica Prokić and Pavla Šimková introduce their just published edited volume Entire of Itself? Towards an Environmental History of Islands, which is available in both print and Open Access digital format. What role has the environment played in the history of islands? Is there even such a thing as environmental history of islands? … More Entire of Itself? Towards an Environmental History of Islands

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