Environment, Law, and History

The Journal of Global History  recently published Lena Joos's "‘Only One Earth’: Environmental Perceptions and Policies before the ...

Next in the series of posts (the last one is here ) on "The Tragedy at 50" (by the way, if anyone wants a hard copy of the jour...

The website of the Institut Heritage Studies has three reviews of the oddly titled (or translated)  40 Years World Heritage Convention: Popu...

President Bush signs the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in Rio, June 1992 (Source: UN) It may seem like ancient history toda...

January 6 saw the passing of Wolfgang Burhenne, a key figure in post-war German and international environmental law, at age 92. A review b...

Karl Polanyi seems to be making a comeback on the pages of the Journal of Environmental Law.  Alongside Ben Pontin's review essay discu...

[Another guest post, with lots of useful references, by Peter Sand of the Institute of International Law, University of Munich (see  here...

H-Environment recently posted a Roundtable Review of Carmel Finley's All the Fish in the Sea:  Maximum Sustainable Yield and the Failure...

Environmental Justice  recently published Ravi Rajan's "A History of Environmental Justice in India" . The abstract: Indian ...

Tomorrow is the 41st anniversary of the Chilean  coup d'état in which a military junta with Augusto Pinochet at its head overthrew the g...