Environment, Law, and History

Signing the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling, 1946 Douglas de Castro recently posted "The Colonial Aspects of...

Toronto Terminals Railway Central Heating Plant, 1929 Working through my backlog, I recently came across Owen Temby's 2015 artic...

Aboriginal men obtain water from mallee root at Yalata in South Australia, 1981 (National Library of Australia) Peter D. Burdon, Georgi...

The Journal of Policy History  recently published Linda Nash's "From Safety to Risk: The Cold War Contexts of American Environmenta...

Yesterday's This Day in Water History had this quote from the AWWA's  Water Quality and Treatment  (3rd ed., 1971) (most comments re...

Bevin Boys report for duty in 1943 ( Express ) The blog "ART and ARCHITECTURE, mainly" earlier this week had an interesting po...

The connections between working-class environmentalism and environmental law is an understudied theme that I've had occasion to highligh...

Colorado water law continues to spur scholarship. The recent issue of Environmental History has a review by Michael Weeks of  Robert Crifasi...

Environmental History  recently published Elisabetta Novello and James C. McCann's "The Building of the Terra Firma: The Political ...

Water Alternatives  recently published a review by Joe Williams of JJ Schmidt, Water: Abundance, Scarcity, and Security in the Age of Human...