Environmental History Resources

Essays

This section presents a series of essays introducing environmental history and and exploring a number of themes including forest history, pollution history and conservation history. The avialable titles are shown below and in the menu at the left hand side of the essays. New essays will be added over time.

Information about copyright and how to cite the essays can be found on the permissions and citation page. All essays are published under a Creative Commons license.

Available essays and publication dates

• What is environmental history? - Published 2005


• Environmental history: between science & philosophy - Published 1999


• A walk trough the forest - Published 1999


• The role of wood in world history - Published 1998


• Industrial water pollution in the Northern Netherlands - Published 1999


• The Forestry Commission & Glen Roy - Published 2000


• History of community forests in Scotland - Published 2005


• Fred Milton, Taking the Pledge: A Study of Children’s Nature Conservation Movements in Britain 1870-1914 - Published 2006


• Dutch river defences in historical perspective - Published 2006


• The language of global warming in G7/8 Communiqués, 1990-2005 - Published 2007


• The colonial origins of scientific forestry in Britain - Published 2007. Download Abstract (PDF)


• K.J.W. Oosthoek, "The Logic of British Forest Policy, 1919-1970", In: Klaus Kubeczko (ed.),Transitions Towards a Sustainable Europe. Ecology - Economy - Policy. Proceedings of the 3rd Biennial Conference of the European Society for Ecogical Economics (Vienna, 2000)