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Exploring Environmental History — 82 episodes

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Resources exploitation and nature protection in the border lands of Qing China

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Incendiary politics: histories of Indigenous Burning and Environmental Debates in Australia and the United States

3

The timber frontier of Northern Sweden: a history of ecological and social transformation

4

Forestry in northern Europe: National Histories, Shared Legacies

5

Kangaroos and tanks: histories of militarised landscapes in Australia

6

The Watery ally: military inundations in Dutch history

7

Water pollution in the Dutch Peat Colonies of Groningen, 1850-1980

8

Water resilience in Western Australia since European Colonisation

9

Environmental History of Tidal Power in the Severn Estuary

10

Cultured nature: The Nature Scenery Act of the Netherlands

11

Contested climate: the debate on the climatic influence of forests - episode 2

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Contested climate: the debate on the climatic influence of forests – episode 1

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Somerset, a 'green and pleasant' energy landscape?

14

The Oldest Geordie: Environmental History of the River Tyne

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Religion and the Origins of American Environmentalism

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Out of this world: environmental history of near-Earth space

17

The UK National Grid: history of an energy landscape and its impacts

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Environmental history of a hydrological landscape: the soughs of Derbyshire

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Tin: a historical perspective on a networked resource

20

Climate variability and population dynamics in prehistoric Australia

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Who is responsible for global warming?

22

The Broken Promise of Agricultural Progresss

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Origins, entanglements and civic aims of the early forestry movement in the United States

24

A sustainable common future? The Brundtland Report in historical perspective

25

Environmental Humanities: something new under the sun?

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Events in the collective environmental memory of humanity

27

The power of the wild

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The nature of South African environmental history

29

The IPCCs Fifth Assessment Report: a historical perspective

30

Desire for the Wild – Wild Desires? The trouble with rewilding

31

Scientific and environmental diplomacy and the Antarctic

32

The Scottish forestry experience and the development of forestry in India

33

Conquering the Highlands. History of the afforestation of the Scottish uplands

34

Kielder: the story of a man-made landscape

35

Remaking wetlands: a tale of rice, ducks and floods in the Murrumbidgee River region

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Canine City: Dogs and Humans in Urban History

37

Explorations in historical climatology

38

Medicinal plants in New Zealand: bridging the gap between medical and environmental history

39

Silent Spring at 50: a comparison perspective

40

A transformed landscape: the steppes of Ukraine and Russia

41

Teaching and discovering environmental history online

42

Energy utopia or dystopia? - A historical perspective on nuclear energy

43

Reframing a vision of lost fens

44

Slavery, fossil fuel use and climate change: past connections, present similarities

45

The draining of the East Anglia Fens: social unrest, design flaws and unintended environmental consequences

46

The First World War and the transformation of forestry in British Columbia

47

Island Environmental Histories: the Ogasawara Islands

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Mountains, the Asiatic Black Bear and conservation in Japan and New Zealand

49

Volcanoes in European history

50

Distance learning environmental history and Scottish forestry

51

Empire and Environmental Anxiety

52

Environmental History of the 2012 Olympic site: The Lower River Lea

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Green Colonialism in Zimbabwe

54

Historical climatology and the cultural memory of extreme weather events

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Environmental history of the Middle Ages

56

Biological invasions, culture and biodiversity in South Africa

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Biological invasions and transformations in history

58

Environmental history: an applied science

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Environmental history: a transatlantic perspective

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Environmental history: definitions, methods and challenges

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Donald Worster on environmental history

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Disasters, history and cultures of coping

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Great Floods of Northumbria, 1771-2008

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Environmental histories of settlement in Canada and New Zealand

65

Artifact or natural? The history of Flanders Moss in Scotland

66

Archaeology, History and Climate Change

67

Urban air pollution in historical perspective

68

The environmental shadow of apartheid and rinderpest

69

Botanists, colonists and local knowledge of nature in South Africa

70

The ozone hole, climate change and the Canadian Arctic

71

History and sustainability

72

Humanities, Climate Change and Digital (Environmental) History

73

Environmental Connections: Europe and the Wider World

74

Scottish Environmental History

75

Australian environmental and forest history

76

Climate history and a forest journey

77

Marine Environmental History

78

History of flood defences and waste

79

Resources, the past and the present

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Rivers run through them: Landscapes in environmental history

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Themes in environmental history

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What is environmental history?