WWW-VL: ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY

The Environmental History section of the WWW Virtual Library, part of the WWW VL History Network, is maintained by the European Society for Environmental History.

Organisations

 American Society for Environmental History

Association for Environmental Archaeology

Australian Forest History Society

 European Society for Environmental History

Forest History Society

International Society of Industrial Ecology (ISIE)

IUFRO forest history

Research Centres

The AHRC Centre for Environmental History

Cemus: Centre for environment and development studies, Uppsala (In Swedish)

Center for Maritime and Regional Studies, University of Southern Denmark

Centre for World Environmental History, University of Sussex

The Institute for Environmental History at the University of St. Andrews (Scotland)

Zentrum für Umweltgeschichte, IFF Vienna (Centre for Environmental History)

Projects and networks

Changing Landscapes. Centre for Strategic Studies in Cultural Environment, Nature and Landscape History, University of Southern Denmark.

The Sea and the Cities project studies the environmental history of urban water pollution and protection in the Baltic Sea region.

University of Cambridge: Documenting Environmental Change - Research Register

H-Environment discussion network

Human Impacts on Terrestrial Ecosystems (HITE).

Research on Environmental History of Indonesia at IIAS, Leiden, The Netherlands

Interdisciplinary Research Network for Environment and Society.
A voluntary network of motivated individuals at research institutes across the UK.

Mensch Gesellschaft Umwelt, University of Basel (In German)

Journals

Environmental History

Environment and History

Italian newsletter on environment and history (In Italian)

Klaudyan, Czech Internet Journal for Historical Geography and Environmental History (Mostly in Czech)

Teaching resources

• Bibliographies
• Environmental History Bibliography
• European Environmental History Bibliography
• Bibliography South American Environmental History

• Timelines
• Environmental History Timeline
• Environmental Movement Timeline - A History of the American Environmental Movement
• Timeline of Waste

• Other
• Academic Info Environmental History - Gateway to Environmental history resources on the net
• Nature Transformed: The Environment in American History. Provides essays by scholars, discussion guidance, and teaching resources.
• WWW VL US environmental History web site at www.mtsu.edu/~lnelson/Environmental-History.html
• Environmental History Resources - Essays, bibliographies, timeline and other resources.

Personal websites

Karel Leenders' home page

Lajos Racz environmental history Website

Geographical

Africa

African Environmental History at Boston University

Australia

Australian Environmental History at ANU

Finland

International Environmental Group. University of Tampere

Germany

Gateway for Environmental History in Germany (In German)

Historische Hochwasser/ Historischer Hochwasserschutz (Historical floods/ Historical flood protection)(In German)

(RH)EINBLICKE - Environmental history of the Rine landscape since the 19th century (In German)

New Zealand

Land & People project, University of Otago

The site is managed by Fred Milton [F.S.Milton@ncl.ac.uk], on behalf of the European Society for Environmental History. Please direct your notices of new URL's or inoperative links to him here. Last Updated, 23 February, 2006