Exploring Environmental History podcast

Exploring Environmental History is the podcast about human societies and the environment in the past. The periodic programmes feature interviews with people working in the field, reports on conferences and discussions about the use and methods of environmental history. You can listen to these audiocasts on your own computer simply by clicking on the "Listen to podcast " links in the list below. Podcast of previous years can be found in the annual archives. The following years are available: 2006, 2007, 2008.

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Current podcast

Podcast 24: Environmental history: a transatlantic perspective

Monday, 29 June 2009

Are there different regional flavours of environmental history? Marc Hall, a historian affiliated to both the Universities of Utah and Zurich, considers this question adding a transatlantic view to this episode in the podcast. In addition he argues that environmental history has moved beyond the question of how we got into the environmental problems that we are facing at present. Now environmental historians consider how and why people have changed ecosystems and how in return the environment changes people in the way they act and think. This opens up a new way of looking at history and the interaction between humanity and nature. But what is the future of the field?

This is part three of a four-part series of podcasts investigating the nature, methods and challenges of environmental history.

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Recent podcasts

Podcast 23: Environmental history: definitions, methods and challenges

Friday, 9 June 2009

Environmental history is still a young field and in some respects quite undefined. Many practitioners as well as outsiders struggle to define its boundaries. The challenge that historians are now facing is how to cope with an ever expanding field and how to integrate not only data from other humanities but also the sciences. In this edition of the podcast Paul Warde, Reader in modern history at the University of East Anglia, agues that not defining the boundaries of the field or a common methodology is key to the success of environmental history but also its weakness. It brings excitement and new ideas to history but in the end, if environmental history becomes too diverse; it is not clear where it is going. How to deal with this problem is one of the key issues discussed on this edition of the podcast.

This is part two of a four-part series of podcasts investigating the nature, methods and challenges of environmental history.

Website mentioned in this podcast: History and sustainability, www.historyandsustainability.org

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Podcast 22: Donald Worster on environmental history

Tuesday, 26 May 2009

The guest on this episode of Exploring Environmental History is Donald Worster, Hall Distinguished Professor of American History at the University of Kansas. He is one of the leading figures in the field of environmental history and has contributed much to its development and methodology. His scholarship and publications has stimulated historians, scientists and others to consider the relationships between humans and nature in history. In this interview Worster considers the nature of environmental history, the question if there are common methodological approaches that brings the field together and the challenges that lay ahead.

This is the first of a series of four podcast episodes investigating the nature, methods and challenges of environmental history.

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