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AN ARCHIVAL GUIDE & BIBLIOGRAPHY
ARTICLES
| Aiken, S. Robert. "From Forest Realm to Cultural Landscape: Economic Development, Forest Loss, and Conservation in Peninsular Malaysia, circa 1850–2000." In Muddied Waters: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Management of Forests and Fisheries in Island Southeast Asia, ed. Peter Boomgaard, David Henley, and Manon Osseweijer (Leiden, The Netherlands: KITLV Press, 2006), 279–306. Looks at selected aspects of human interaction with the forests of Peninsular Malaysia during the period 1850–2000, outlining changes in the political economy and the ecological consequences of forest exploitation, and examining attempts to conserve forests and wildlife.Allen, Barbara L. "Cradle of a Revolution?: The Industrial Transformation of Louisiana's Lower Mississippi River." Technology and Culture 47 (January 2006): 112–19. Examines land use change in the lower Mississippi region of Louisiana, eighteenth through early twentieth centuries, including the roles of plantation agriculture, petrochemical industrial pollution, and hurricanes Katrina and Rita.Allen, Robert C., and Ian Keay. "Bowhead Whales in the Eastern Arctic, 1611–1911: Population Reconstruction with Historical Whaling Records." Environment and History 12 (February 2006): 89–113. Examines species decline by comparing and contrasting four methods for estimating the population of Bowhead whales between the east coast of Greenland and the island of Spitzbergen prior to and during commercial exploitation by Dutch, German, and British whalers, 1611–1911.Alley, Bill. "Crashing Timbers, Ice Floods, and Movie Stars: Universal Studios Comes to Klamath Falls." Pacific Northwest Quarterly 96 (Fall 2005): 181–186. Describes the shooting of logging scenes for the silent movie The Ice Flood in 1920s Klamath Falls, Oregon.Andrews, Richard N. L. "Recovering FDR's Environmental Legacy." In FDR and the Environment, ed. Henry L. Henderson and David B. Woolner (World of the Roosevelts Series. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), 221–43. Attempts to recover the environmental legacy of FDR and the New Deal in the context of the 2000s, with the goals of reasserting its historical importance, considering its impacts on subsequent events and issues, and investigating whether FDR's initiatives offer any tools for addressing early-twenty-first-century environmental policy.Antunès, Isabelle. "The Price to Pay for Political Sustainability: Sasi and Commercial Marine Resource Depletion in Kei Besar, Maluku, Indonesia." In Muddied Waters: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Management of Forests and Fisheries in Island Southeast Asia, ed. Peter Boomgaard, David Henley, and Manon Osseweijer (Leiden, The Netherlands: KITLV Press, 2006), 143–62. Geo-cultural case study of the trochus fishery in the village of Watlaar in Maluku, Indonesia.Bankoff, Greg. "Winds of Colonisation: The Meteorological Contours of Spain's Imperium in the Pacific, 1521–1898." Environment and History 12 (February 2006): 65–88. Examines the relationship between weather systems, particularly prevailing winds and storms, and colonialism in Spanish possessions in the Pacific from the 16th through the end of the nineteenth century.Banzhaf, Spencer et al. " Voting for Conservation: What is the American Electorate Revealing?" Resources 160 (Winter 2006): 7–12. Examines the results of over 1,100 referenda for the conservation of open space in the United States from 1997 to 2002, including an in-depth investigation of referenda in Colorado.Barnett, Jim. "Second Harvest: Pine Stumps for Naval Stores." Forests & People 56 (1 2006): 20–21. Brief history of the naval stores industry in the Southern United States, highlighting the early-twentieth-century wood naval stores era in which products were extracted from longleaf pine stumps in cutover areas.Bernstein, Anya. "Parameters of Legitimation and the Environmental Future of a Taipei Neighborhood." In Echoes from the Poisoned Well: Global Memories of Environmental Injustice, ed. Sylvia Hood Washington, Paul C. Rosier, and Heather Goodall (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006), 311–30. Examines a conflict ongoing since the late twentieth century between a Taipei neighborhood and the Taiwan Electric Company about the expansion of an electric substation, focusing on the ways that collective memory and personalized history of the local Taiwan environment has been mobilized to thwart future environmental degradation.Black, Brian. "The Complex Environmentalist: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Ethos of New Deal Conservation." In FDR and the Environment, ed. Henry L. Henderson and David B. Woolner (World of the Roosevelts Series. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), 19–47. Explores the complex environmental ethic that governed FDR's New Deal conservation policy, arguing that the natural environment's significance to human welfare was one of his most basic convictions, growing from the Jeffersonian ideal that connection to the land and hard work made people "better Americans.". . . |
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