The nectar of the forest: drinking water as an ecosystem service in early modern Augsburg and in Europe today
By Davide Martino Environment & History, essay no. 8 In the eighth contribution to our ‘Environment & History’ series, post-graduate researcher Davide Martino reflects on his research into hydraulic philosophy in early modern European cities,...
Environment, emotions, and experience: child migration in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
By Claudia Soares Environment & History, essay no. 7 The next contributor to our ‘Environment & History’ series, Dr Claudia Soares, considers how histories of the environment, emotions, and welfare intersect, through the written experiences of poor and...
Devoured riches: thinking environmentally about conflict past and future
By Jennifer Keating Environment & History, essay no. 6 For our sixth post in the ‘Environment & History’ series, Dr Jennifer Keating focuses on understanding conflict through the environment during the fall of Imperial Russia. Homing in on the Central...
The history of a communication problem: conflict between Dutch nature conservation and agriculture
By Kristian Mennen Environment & History, essay no. 5 In the next post in our ‘Environment & History’ series, Dr Kristian Mennen takes us into the twentieth century to consider how the perception of an inherent conflict between...