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

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 

Paradise Blues: Travels through American Environmental History

We are delighted to have just published Christof Mauch’s Paradise Blues in English translation (by Lucy Jones). The prologue invites readers to jump in to a book described by Don Worster as ‘a new kind of history for a world seeking hope’ and by Serenella Iovino as ‘a rich and unpredictable epiphany of stories’. The … More Paradise Blues: Travels through American Environmental History