Adam Rome | from the editor | Environmental History, 10.2

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Adam Rome | from the editor | Environmental History, 10.2 | The History Cooperative

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GREGG MITMAN BEGINS this issue with a provocative and wide-ranging discussion of places where environmental history meets the histories of science and medicine. One part of his essay considers the roots of Aldo Leopold's conception of "land health." Another section explores the historic relationships between empire and disease ecologies. Mitman ends by offering new ways to interpret the wellsprings of the conservation and preservation movements.	1
Diana Davis's article is probably the first Environmental History has published about the historical effects of forests that didn't exist! In colonial Morocco, French environmental policy derived from a powerful vision of a once-lush landscape degraded by centuries of deforestation and overgrazing. (The painting on the cover of this issue is a fine example of nineteenth-century French depictions of North Africa.) Derived from classical literary texts, the degradation narrative gained new authority from the emerging science of plant ecology, which allowed officials to create "potential vegetation" maps. Yet modern paleoecological research casts doubt on the underlying assumptions of those maps—and the policies derived from them.	2
In the early 1960s, ecologists began to imagine what would be required to create livable environments in outer space, and Peder Anker considers the many legacies of that effort. Some were practical: Research into the ecology of space travel inspired the Biosphere II experiment in Arizona as well as the development of many environmentally friendly technologies. But Anker is more interested in the intellectual legacies. His article is a stimulating argument about how the concept of "spaceship earth" has shaped the way we conceptualize environmental problems.	. . .

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