Deb Anderson, Monash University CSIRO Publishing Endurance presents stories of ordinary Australians grappling with extraordinary circumstances, providing insight into their lives, their experiences with drought and their perceptions of climate change. The book opens with the physical impacts, science, politics and economics of drought and climate change in...
Network of African Environmental Humanities Featured in the African Historical Review From the Rachel Carson Center: An article on the African Network of Environmental Humanities (ANEH) was recently featured in the African Historical Review, a biannual, peer-reviewed academic journal on the history of Africa. Written by Dr....
Ruth A. Morgan University of Western Australia Press, 320 pp, PB, February 2015. For nearly 200 years the visions and aspirations of the people of Australia’s west have been characterised by an unquenchable thirst. Ruth Morgan uncovers the fear of running out of water — a fear...
The calamitous impacts of climate change that are beginning to be felt around the world today expose the inextricability of human and natural histories. Arguing for a more complex account of such calamities, Kate Rigby examines a variety of past disasters, from the Black Death...
NEW BOOK! Eco-Cultural Networks and the British Empire: New Views on Environmental History. Edited by James Beattie, Edward Melillo, Emily O’Gorman. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015. Nineteenth-century British imperial expansion has dramatically shaped today‘s globalised world. Imperialism drove mass migrations of people and altered the trajectories of trade. It...
A new report "Developing the Environmental Humanities in Switzerland: An Evaluation of Opportunities, Challenges, and Priorities in Research, Teaching, and Institutional Support" by Christoph Kueffer, Philippe Foret and Marcus Hall, and commissioned by the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences is now available (PDF) The...
The latest issue of Plumwood Mountain: An Australian Journal of Ecopoetry and Ecopoetics has just appeared - free online! ...
Aeon Magazine is one of the great outreach initiatives in the Environmental Humanities. I am very pleased to have my latest publication there No island is an island in a cosmopolitan age Libby Robin...
In this new work, Elaine Stratford takes up the call for more work on the politics of mobility, for studies that engage more often and more fully with emotional geographies, and for insights that draw on lived experience. Stratford starts with the idea of the interval....
We're very pleased to announce that volume 5 of Environmental Humanities is now available online. http://environmentalhumanities.org It's a huge volume, including seven papers in the main section, two provocation pieces, a special section on representing the Anthropocene, and the first instalment of our new Living Lexicon for...