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AN ARCHIVAL GUIDE & BIBLIOGRAPHY

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Agricultural History. "Agricultural History Talks to Joan Jensen." Agricultural History 81 (Winter 2007): 70–75 . Interview with Joan M. Jensen (b. 1934), agricultural historian and author specializing in the lives of rural women.

Alden, Anne. "Personification of Pets: The Evolution of Canine Cartoons in the New Yorker." In What Are the Animals to Us? Approaches from Science, Religion, Folklore, Literature, and Art, ed. Dave Afrandilian, Marion W. Copeland, and David Scofield Wilson. Knoxville: University of Tennessee, 2007. 219–239 pp. Examines the portrayal of dogs in cartoons from the New Yorker magazine, 1920s-2000s, as reflective of changes in attitudes towards pets and the role of dogs in American society.

Alexander, Thomas G. "Generating Wealth from the Earth, 1847–2000." In From the Ground Up: The History of Mining in Utah, ed. Colleen Whitley. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2006. 37–57 pp. History of wealth generated from mineral resources in Utah, tracing two stages: from the arrival of Church of Latter Day Saints pioneers in 1847 to the end of WWII in 1945, during which Utah's mines were maturing, and a period of mature growth between 1946 and 2000. Assesses mining's contribution to Utah's economy during these periods.

Amundsen, Elisabet S. "Wild Animals in a Free Man's World? North American References in Norwegian Sportsmen's Descriptions of Reindeer, 1850–1950." In What Are the Animals to Us? Approaches from Science, Religion, Folklore, Literature, and Art, ed. Dave Afrandilian, Marion W. Copeland, and David Scofield Wilson. Knoxville: University of Tennessee, 2007. 111–139 pp. Uses Norwegian sportsmen's descriptions of reindeer and reindeer hunting to examine hunters' cultural values and their relationship to nature, 1850–1950. Explores the role of sport hunter's culture in Norwegian society and game management policy.

Anderson, Katharine. "Mapping Meteorology." In Intimate Universality: Local and Global Themes in the History of Weather and Climate, ed. James Rodger Fleming, Vladimir Jankovic, and Deborah R. Coen. Sagamore Beach, MA: Science History Publications, 2006. 69–91 pp. Traces the history of atmospheric mapping beginning in the 1800s. Focuses particularly on Heinrich Brandes' synoptic map, which became the map most closely associated with weather prediction.

Anschuetz, Kurt F. "Tewa Fields, Tewa Traditions." In Canyon Gardens: The Ancient Pueblo Landscapes of the American Southwest, ed. V. B. Price and Baker H. Morrow. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2006. 57–73 pp. Challenges traditional assumptions that the ancient Pueblo Indian Tewa people were forced to abandon certain sites because of drastic, permanent climatic changes. Drawing on archaeological evidence, argues instead that movement into and out of sites reflected a more flexible pattern of modulated change. Describes Pueblo practices of horticulture, wild plant harvesting, and water management as year-round activities that were connected to Pueblo religious practices.

Appuhn, Karl. "Friend or Flood?: The Dilemmas of Water Management in Early Modern Venice." In The Nature of Cities: Culture, Landscape, and Urban Space, ed. Andrew C. Isenberg. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2006. 79–102 pp. Explores the question of why Venetians considered abandoning traditional water management methods in favor of new northern European technology to address seasonal flooding at the end of the seventeenth century.

Braden, Susan. "The Triumphant Tiger: Short Narratives by Jorge Luis Borges." In What Are the Animals to Us? Approaches from Science, Religion, Folklore, Literature, and Art, ed. Dave Afrandilian, Marion W. Copeland, and David Scofield Wilson. Knoxville: University of Tennessee, 2007. 161–167 pp. Examines tigers in the works of Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) as a form of psychic exploration of human connection to nature.

Bradley, Bruce A. "A Durable Legacy: Construction and Spatial Analysis at Sand Canyon Pueblo in the Mesa Verde Country." In Canyon Gardens: The Ancient Pueblo Landscapes of the American Southwest, ed. V. B. Price and Baker H. Morrow. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2006. 45–56 pp. Draws on archaeological research to compare the southern Colorado Pueblo Indian sites of Sand Canyon and Mesa Verde, with respect to their landscapes and architectural features.

Brandt, Carol B. "Reading the Ancestral Puebloan Landscape: A Paleoethnobotanist's Text of Seeds and Wood." In Canyon Gardens: The Ancient Pueblo Landscapes of the American Southwest, ed. V. B. Price and Baker H. Morrow. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2006. 33–44 pp. Describes the methods used to analyze, reconstruct, and describe ancient landscapes, primarily by utilizing "ecofacts" — charred seeds, food fragments, wood, and other biological debris found at ancient sites. Discusses the application of these methods at a Pueblo Indian site in north-central New Mexico.

Brown, Clifford T. "Water Sources at Mayapan, Yucatán, Mexico." In Precolumbian Water Management: Ideology, Ritual, and Power, ed. Lisa J. Lucero and Barbara W. Fash. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2006. 171–185 pp. Examines water sources in and around Mayapan, the Late Postclassic (AD 1200–1450) capital of Maya society located in the northwest Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico. Discusses climate, hydrology, geology, and geomorphology as well as the economic, social, and religious significance of water in the region.

Bryant, Bunyan, and Elaine Hockman. "A Brief Comparison of the Civil Rights Movement and the Environmental Justice Movement." In Power, Justice, and the Environment: A Critical Appraisal of the Environmental Justice Movement, ed. David Naguib Pellow and Robert J. Brulle. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2006. 23–36 pp. Compares the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s to the environmental justice movement of the 1980s and 1990s. Traces the origins of the two movements, examining the composition of each, and argues that both movements failed to confront the root problems contributing to injustice. Analyzes the strategies and international impacts of both movements.

Buckner, Eldon L. "The O'Connor Connection." Fair Chase 21 (Winter 2006): 52–57. Biography of sheep hunter and Outdoor Life columnist Jack O'Connor, 1902–1978. Describes O'Connor's interest in hunting and wildlife, his journalistic career, and his personal life.

Bunker, Stephen G. "Natural Values and the Physical Inevitability of Uneven Development under Capitalism." In Rethinking Environmental History: World-System History and Global Environmental Change, ed. Alf Hornborg, J. R. McNeill, and Joan Martinez-Alier. Lanham: Altamira Press, 2007. 239–258 pp.

Burac, Maurice. "The Struggle for Sustainable Tourism in Martinique." In Beyond Sun and Sand: Caribbean Environmentalisms, ed. Sherrie L. Baver and Barbara Deutsch Lynch. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2006. 65–72 pp. Traces the effort of local environmental activists to transform tourism in Martinique to a sustainable industry. Describes the movement from the 1970s to the 1990s, discussing its actions and legislative successes.

Burnett, J. Alexander. "The Canadian Wildlife Service: Enforcing Federal Wildlife Regulations." In The Culture of Hunting in Canada, ed. Jean L. Manore and Dale G. Miner. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2006. 167–189 pp. Overview of federal wildlife regulation in Canada in the twentieth century.

Calverley, David. "'When the Need for It No Longer Existed': Declining Wildlife and Native Hunting Rights in Ontario, 1791–1898." In The Culture of Hunting in Canada, ed. Jean L. Manore and Dale G. Miner. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2006. 105–120 pp. Traces the development of animal conservation and Native hunting policy in Ontario, Canada beginning in 1791, arguing that interest in regulation peaked in the 1890s only when officials realized the economic value of game resources.

Coates, Kenneth. "The Sinews of Their Lives: First Nations' Access to Resources in the Yukon, 1890–1950." In The Culture of Hunting in Canada, ed. Jean L. Manore and Dale G. Miner. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2006. 148–166 pp. Examines conflict over Native access to natural resources, particularly wildlife, in the Yukon Territory from the gold rush through the post-World War II era.

Coen, Deborah R. "Scaling Down: The "Austrian" Climate Between Empire and Republic." In Intimate Universality: Local and Global Themes in the History of Weather and Climate, ed. James Rodger Fleming, Vladimir Jankovic, and Deborah R. Coen. Sagamore Beach, MA: Science History Publications, 2006. 115–140 pp. Traces the history of meteorology in Austria, 1910s-1930s. Argues that Austria confronted an identity crisis in the wake of World War I, and that this greatly affected climate science in the country. Describes relationships between climatology, urban and mountainous environments, and medical therapy in Austria.

Collantes, Fernando. "The Decline of Agrarian Societies in the European Countryside: A Case Study of Spain in the Twentieth Century." Agricultural History 81 (Winter 2007): 76–97. Case study of the transformation of rural Spain in the twentieth century, focusing on the decline of agriculture and the effects of the concurrent de-population on rural Spanish society.

Compton, Hal, and David Hampshire. "Park City." In From the Ground Up: The History of Mining in Utah, ed. Colleen Whitley. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2006. 318–341 pp. History of mining of gold, silver, copper, lead, and zinc in the area surrounding Park City, Utah, 1870s through 1980s.

Cyphers, Ann, and Judith Zurita-Noguera. "A Land That Tastes of Water." In Precolumbian Water Management: Ideology, Ritual, and Power, ed. Lisa J. Lucero and Barbara W. Fash. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2006. 33–50 pp. Analyzes the social and political importance of water to the Olmec people in the southern Veracruz and western Tabasco, Mexico in the Early Preclassic period (1500–800 BC). Examines environmental and settlement information in conjunction with the distribution of specific kinds of stone monuments.

Daley, Ben, and Peter Griggs. "Mining the Reefs and Cays: Coral, Guano and Rock Phosphate Extraction in the Great Barrier Reef, Australia, 1844–1940." Environment and History 12 (November 2006): 395–433. Examines the history of extraction of phosphatic sandstone, guano, rock phosphate and coral from Australia's Great Barrier Reef, mid-nineteenth through mid-twentieth centuries. Argues that the extent and severity of mining during this period has been previously neglected in environmental histories of the ecosystem.

Darby, Melissa. "The Intensification of Wapato (Sagittaria latifolia) by the Chinookan People of the Lower Columbia River." In Keeping It Living: Traditions of Plant Use and Cultivation on the Northwest Coast of North America, ed. Douglas Deur and Nancy J. Turner. Seattle and Vancouver: University of Washington Press//UBC Press, 2005. 194–217 pp. Examines management of wapato, an aquatic tuberous plant, by Chinookan peoples in the Lower Columbia River region of the Northwest Coast of North America. Argues that rather than being passive exploiters of this bountiful resource, indigenous peoples developed strategies to intensify the resource, resulting in a higher level of social complexity. Focuses primarily on the nineteenth century.

Dejong, David H. "'Abandoned Little by Little': The 1914 Pima Adjudication Survey, Sorvey Water Deprivation, and Farming on the Pima Reservation." Agricultural History 81 (Winter 2007): 36–69 . Describes the 1914 Pima Adjudication survey, whereby the United States Indian Irrigation Service attempted to measure the amount of land irrigated on the Pima Indian reservation and how that amount had changed over the nineteenth century. Drawing on a combination of Pima voices and GIS data, discusses the results of the survey, which reveal the strategies used by the Pima to respond to severe water deprivation.

Deur, Douglas. "Tending the Garden, Making the Soil: Northwest Coast Estuarine Gardens as Engineered Environments." In Keeping It Living: Traditions of Plant Use and Cultivation on the Northwest Coast of North America, ed. Douglas Deur and Nancy J. Turner. Seattle and Vancouver: University of Washington Press//UBC Press, 2005. 296–327 pp. Examines anthropological references to estuarine plant use among indigenous peoples of the Northwest Coast of North America, arguing that they learned to engineer the tidal flats to increase the productivity of estuarine root foods before the arrival of Europeans.

Devereux, John Henry, and David A. Simmons. "'In Death-like Silence': Touring a Coal Mine in 1852." Timeline 24 (January-March 2007): 60–71. Excerpt from the diary of John Henry Devereux, an influential Ohio railroad manager in the mid- to late 1800s. In the excerpt, dated 31 August 1852, Devereux describes an excursion to the coal mines of Summit County, Ohio, noting the landscape, the operation of the mines, and the railroad.

Dunning, Nicholas P., Timothy Beach, and Sheryl Luzzadder-Beach. "Environmental Variability among Bajos in the Southern Maya Lowlands and Its Implications for Ancient Maya Civilization and Archaeology." In Precolumbian Water Management: Ideology, Ritual, and Power, ed. Lisa J. Lucero and Barbara W. Fash. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2006. 81–99 pp. Explores the phenomenon of cultural centers in the southern Mayan Lowlands being situated adjacent to large karst depressions known as bajos, arguing that previously unrecognized environmental diversity and hydrologic change within bajos had dramatic implications for the Maya occupation of the region. Examines geoarchaeological data from 13,000–1000 BP.

Dyl, Joanna L. "The War on Rats versus the Right to Keep Chickens: Plague and the Paving of San Francisco, 1907–1908." In The Nature of Cities: Culture, Landscape, and Urban Space, ed. Andrew C. Isenberg. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2006. 38–61 pp. Examines efforts in San Francisco in the aftermath the 1906 earthquake and fire to combat bubonic plague by making the city inhospitable to rats, primarily by replacing wood construction with concrete. Argues that while officials and businessmen implemented their vision of the "modern city," immigrants and the poor suffered disproportionately from the city's ecological transformation.

Ellis, Peter. "Fostering a Biological Legacy: A Dead Tree, Old Growth, and Ecological Reserves." Forest Notes (Fall/Winter 2006): 26–28 . Discusses the importance of dead and dying trees for the ecology of old growth forests, focusing on one such tree in the Stoddard properties of New Hampshire. Describes a new (2000s) Forest Society designation called "Ecological Reserve," created as a way to manage forests by leaving some parts of the land untouched, and contrasts this method with twentieth century forestry practices.

Fash, Barbara W., and Karla L. Davis-Salazar. "Copan Water Ritual and Management." In Precolumbian Water Management: Ideology, Ritual, and Power, ed. Lisa J. Lucero and Barbara W. Fash. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2006. 129–143 pp. Explores the sociopolitical and religious significance of water at the ancient Mayan site of Copan in Honduras during the Late Classic period (c. AD 550–850).

Fleming, James Rodger. "Global Climate Change and Human Agency: Inadvertent Influence and "Archimedean" Interventions." In Intimate Universality: Local and Global Themes in the History of Weather and Climate, ed. James Rodger Fleming, Vladimir Jankovic, and Deborah R. Coen. Sagamore Beach, MA: Science History Publications, 2006. 223–248 pp. Addresses global climate change as an intergenerational, international, and interdisciplinary issue. Argues that anthropogenic climate change is not a new topic, and traces the history of modern European thought connecting climate change with human culture, beginning in the 1700s. Connects the history of climate change with recent thought on ethics and public policy, and advocates an agenda for future research.

Frederick, Ken, and Doug Frederick. "Smokejumping and Ski Jumping: Walt Anderson, an Early Advocate and Developer of Smokejumping." Smokejumper (January 2007): 18–20. Describes the life and activities of Walt Anderson, a smokejumping pioneer who parlayed his ski jumping hobby into early experiments with smokejumping in the 1930s.

French, Kirk D., David S. Stuart, and Alfonso Morales. "Archaeological and Epigraphic Evidence for Water Management and Ritual at Palenque." In Precolumbian Water Management: Ideology, Ritual, and Power, ed. Lisa J. Lucero and Barbara W. Fash. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2006. 144–152 pp. Examines water management at the ancient Mayan site of Palenque in Chiapas, Mexico, studying epigraphy, archaeology, iconography, and ethnography to demonstrate how the Maya combined ideology and function through water.

García-Martínez, Neftalí, Tania García-Ramos, and Ana Rivera-Rivera. "Puerto Rico: Economic and Environmental Overview." In Beyond Sun and Sand: Caribbean Environmentalisms, ed. Sherrie L. Baver and Barbara Deutsch Lynch. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2006. 75–85 pp. Overview of the economy and natural environment of Puerto Rico, tracing the island's transition from a pre-capitalist, agricultural economy to a capitalist, industrialized economy, around the time of the U.S. military invasion in 1898. Discusses Puerto Rico's subsequent economic development through the twentieth century, with particular attention to the relationship between the island's natural resources and its economy. Addresses such issues as overpopulation and emigration.

Gasson, Rafael A. "Steps to an Environmental History of the Western Llanos of Venezuela: A World-System Perspective." In Rethinking Environmental History: World-System History and Global Environmental Change, ed. Alf Hornborg, J. R. McNeill, and Joan Martinez-Alier. Lanham: Altamira Press, 2007. 163–177 pp. Advocates a world-system approach to understanding environmental history and landscape use, with emphasis on using a common framework to examine both environmental and social changes. Analyzes four case studies from the history of the Llanos region in Venezuela from the fifteenth century to the twentieth century: agricultural intensification, cattle ranching and hunting, tobacco farming, and the feather trade. Discusses changes to the world-system of the Llanos as a result of the arrival of the Spanish, and the overall impact of economic activities on the llanero landscape.

Gillespie, Greg. "The Empire's Eden: British Hunters, Travel Writing, and Imperialism in Nineteenth-Century Canada." In The Culture of Hunting in Canada, ed. Jean L. Manore and Dale G. Miner. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2006. 42–55 pp. Examines the experiences of British big-game hunters and sportsmen in mid-to-late nineteenth-century Canada through their travel and exploration narratives, exploring British perceptions/depictions of wilderness and their appropriation of the colonial landscape from other Europeans and from Aboriginals.

Good, Gregory A. "A Shift of View: Meteorology in John Herschel's Terrestrial Physics." In Intimate Universality: Local and Global Themes in the History of Weather and Climate, ed. James Rodger Fleming, Vladimir Jankovic, and Deborah R. Coen. Sagamore Beach, MA: Science History Publications, 2006. 35–67 pp. Examines the role of British meteorologist John Herschel in the history of meteorology at the turn of the nineteenth century. Describes Herschel's understanding of weather and its connections with natural philosophy, his position on the relationship between mathematics and terrestrial physics, his commitment to the necessity of theory in meteorology, and his advocacy of coordinated global observation.

Gwynn, J. Wallace. "Saline Minerals." In From the Ground Up: The History of Mining in Utah, ed. Colleen Whitley. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2006. 101–125 pp. History of salt mining in Utah from the arrival of Mormon pioneers in 1847 through the early twenty-first century.

Hakansson, N. Thomas. "Trade, "Trinkets," and Environmental Change at the Edge of World-Systems: Political Ecology and the East African Ivory Trade." In Rethinking Environmental History: World-System History and Global Environmental Change, ed. Alf Hornborg, J. R. McNeill, and Joan Martinez-Alier. Lanham: Altamira Press, 2007. 143–162 pp. Analyzes the ivory trade of eastern Africa in the nineteenth century, when the trade system changed from a decentralized one controlled by local communities to a well-defined pattern of trade routes controlled partly by international capital. Asserts that the ivory trade exemplifies economic relationships between "incorporated" and "unincorporated" parties. Examines the distribution of power and labor control in the East African ivory trade and its effects on land-use patterns, arguing that long-distance trade affects social relations and changes incentives for the use of natural resources. Suggests a framework for understanding the relationship between trade and environmental exploitation in similar contexts.

Hart, John. "Catholicism." In The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Ecology, ed. Roger S. Gottlieb. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. 65–91 pp. Provides an overview of Catholic ideas about ecology, including a history of these ideas from Augustine in 354 to Pope John Paul II in the 1990s. Includes the religious and environmental ethics of notable Catholic figures, including Thomas Aquinas in the 1200s, Francis of Assisi in the late 1100s, and Pope Leo XIII in the 1890s, and describes the stances of the Church and its members on various environmental issues, including water rights.

Hieb, Louis A. "The Narrative Construction of Landscape." In Canyon Gardens: The Ancient Pueblo Landscapes of the American Southwest, ed. V. B. Price and Baker H. Morrow. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2006. 113–123 pp. Examines representations of landscape in the written narratives of Hopi Indians from 1879 to 1894. Asserts that language and narrative structure can facilitate cross-cultural understanding of landscape.

Hinds, E. J. W. "The Nature and Culture of Species: Eighteenth-Century and Contemporary Views." In What Are the Animals to Us? Approaches from Science, Religion, Folklore, Literature, and Art, ed. Dave Afrandilian, Marion W. Copeland, and David Scofield Wilson. Knoxville: University of Tennessee, 2007. 95–109 pp. Examines the history of animal species classification, seeking to understand the relationship between the eighteenth-century origins of natural history and modern (late twentieth century) Euro-American views of animals. Focuses on changing perceptions of hybrid species.

Hines, Susan. "Excavating the Past." Landscape Architecture 97 (January 2007): 72–79. Describes the restoration and rehabilitation of Wye Hall, a former plantation on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland first owned by William Paca, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. The original house, which no longer stands, was built in the 1790s and situated on a series of terraces. Archaeological digs on the terraces in the 2000s uncovered artifacts revealing the life of William Paca and the history of slaves on the plantation. A unique collaboration between landscape architect, archaeologist, and homeowner enabled the conservation of the plantation's landscape while preserving its archaeological history.

Hopsicker, Peter M. "The Adirondack Guide: The Wilderness Representative of Invasion and Invitation into an Imagined Community." New York History 87 (Summer 2006): 345–363. Explores the experiences of local men who worked as sportsmen's guides in New York's Adirondack mountains in the mid- nineteenth century, placing them in the broader context of the development of the Adirondack tourist industry and changing perceptions of wilderness in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Hughes, J. Donald. "Environmental Impacts of the Roman Economy and Social Structure: Augustus to Diocletian." In Rethinking Environmental History: World-System History and Global Environmental Change, ed. Alf Hornborg, J. R. McNeill, and Joan Martinez-Alier. Lanham: Altamira Press, 2007. 27–40 pp. Describes the economic changes that occurred during the first centuries of the Roman Empire, from Augustus Caesar's rule in 27 B.C. to the rule of Diocletian ending in 305 A.D. Explores the role of environmental deterioration and resource depletion in the Empire, including that which resulted from pollution, agriculture, mining, hunting, and forest exploitation; as well as the role of slavery. Concludes that, despite the reforms of Diocletian, the effects of these ecological and economic changes were cumulative and ultimately devastating to the Roman Empire.

Isenberg, Andrew C. "Banking on Sacramento: Urban Development, Flood Control, and Political Legitimization, 1848–1862." In The Nature of Cities: Culture, Landscape, and Urban Space, ed. Andrew C. Isenberg. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2006. 103–121 pp. Examines political and economic aspects of flooding and flood control measures in Sacramento, California, focusing on the period from its founding in 1848 through the flood of 1862.

Isenberg, Andrew C. "Introduction: New Directions in Urban Environmental History." In The Nature of Cities: Culture, Landscape, and Urban Space, ed. Andrew C. Isenberg. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2006. xi-xix pp. Overview of the development of scholarly inquiry into environmental history, particularly its applications to urban environments and new explorations of race, class, consumerism, landscape studies, and the human body.

Ivey, James E. "The Estancia: The New Mexican Hacienda." In Canyon Gardens: The Ancient Pueblo Landscapes of the American Southwest, ed. V. B. Price and Baker H. Morrow. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2006. 75–85 pp. Describes transformations in Pueblo gardening styles during the seventeenth century in New Mexico. Influenced by Spanish missionaries' haciendas, Pueblo Indians developed "estancias," which radically altered ancestral Pueblo agricultural styles and became economic powerhouses in the Southwest.

Ivey, Linda L. "Ethnicity in the Land: Lost Stories in California Agriculture." Agricultural History 81 (Winter 2007): 98–124. Challenges the common understanding of ethnic and immigrant agriculturalists in California history as powerless, poor farmers working in dangerous conditions far removed from the endeavors of wealthy white farmers. Provides a case study of the Pajaro Valley in the first half of the twentieth century, suggesting that inter-ethnic cooperation between immigrants and white farmers was more common than typically thought.

Jaksa, Matthew F. "Putting the 'Sustainable' Back in Sustainable Development: Recognizing and Enforcing Indigenous Property Rights as a Pathway to Global Environmental Sustainability." Journal of Environmental Law and Litigation 21 (1 2006): 157–205. Traces the colonialist concept of indigenous property rights as it developed through history from the time of Spanish colonists in the 1500s. Discusses the relevance of this concept in understanding the continuing exploitation of indigenous peoples, territories, and resources. Addresses the failure of the sustainable development model in international environmental law. Proposes using international law to alter the developed world's conception of indigenous property rights and foster sustainability. Suggests using the Inter-American Human Rights System as a model for further advancing indigenous property rights.

James, Laurence P., and James E. Fell, Jr. "Alta, the Cottonwoods, and American Fork." In From the Ground Up: The History of Mining in Utah, ed. Colleen Whitley. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2006. 272–298 pp. History of the Cottonwood and American Fork mining districts in Utah from Mormon colonization in the 1840s through the early twentieth century.

Jankovic, Vladimir. "Intimate Climates: From Skins to Streets, Soirees to Societies." In Intimate Universality: Local and Global Themes in the History of Weather and Climate, ed. James Rodger Fleming, Vladimir Jankovic, and Deborah R. Coen. Sagamore Beach, MA: Science History Publications, 2006. 1–33 pp. Examines the dichotomy between indoor and outdoor spaces in eighteenth century Great Britain. Explores weather as an indoor as well as an outdoor phenomenon, and discusses the health impacts of both indoor and outdoor environments on eighteenth century British citizens, particularly with regard to socioeconomic class distinctions.

Kelman, Ari. "New Orleans' Phantom Slave Insurrection of 1853: Racial Anxiety, Urban Ecology, and Human Bodies as Public Spaces." In The Nature of Cities: Culture, Landscape, and Urban Space, ed. Andrew C. Isenberg. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2006. 3–23 pp. Examines the concurrence of a massive yellow fever epidemic and concerns over slave rebellion in New Orleans, Louisiana during the summer of 1853. Argues that the coincidence of these events caused obsession with matters of the human body, especially black bodies, and underscores the social implications of urban ecology for understanding racial anxiety.

Kernan, Bruce S. "Growing with a Forest: Our Family's 60 Years in a Woodlot." New York Conservationist 61 (February 2007): 10–13. Describes the lot in New York's Charlotte Forest where the author grew up, tracing its natural history from 15,000 years ago, listing the major tree species comprising its ecosystem, and recounting the forest's changes during his family's occupation of the woodlot beginning in 1946.

Kirk, Andrew, and Charles Palmer. "When Nature Becomes Culture: The National Register and Yosemite Camp 4, A Case Study." Western Historical Quarterly 37 (Winter 2006): 497–506. Explores the 1997–2003 conflict between mountain climbers and National Park Service officials over listing a campground in Yosemite National Park on the National Register of Historic Places. Argues that the site's listing reflects changing interpretations of history in the national parks and a new legal realm for environmental activism closely related to cultural preservation.

Klingle, Matthew W. "Fair Play: Outdoor Recreation and Environmental Inequality in Twentieth-Century Seattle." In The Nature of Cities: Culture, Landscape, and Urban Space, ed. Andrew C. Isenberg. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2006. 122–156 pp. Examines the relationship between the leisure economy and urban development in early-twentieth-century Seattle, focusing on the roles of consumer culture and social inequality in public access to and use of spaces for outdoor recreation.

Kreike, Emmanuel Hendrikus. "The Palenque Paradox: Bush Cities, Bushmen, and the Bush." In The Nature of Cities: Culture, Landscape, and Urban Space, ed. Andrew C. Isenberg. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2006. 159–174 pp. Examines the phenomenon of "bush cities," such as Palenque, Mexico, Angkor Wat, Cambodia and Great Zimbabwe in Africa, exploring the seeming paradox of urban ruins in what is now seen as "pristine nature." Provides case study of Bushman/San communities in the late nineteenth-early twentieth century border region of Angola and Namibia, Africa.

Kumbamu, Ashok. "Ecological Modernization and the 'Gene Revolution': The Case Study of Bt Cotton in India." Capitalism Nature Socialism 17 (December 2006): 7–31. Describes the Ecological Modernization Perspective, which asserts that this century's environmental problems can be overcome by technological innovations. Discusses whether this perspective may be applied to current agricultural crises in the southern hemisphere, using the introduction of genetically modified cotton in India as a case study. Examines the history of technological innovations in agriculture, beginning with the Green Revolution in the 1960s. Addresses political and ethical questions about genetically modified crops, and the environmental impacts frequently associated with the adoption of new technologies.

Kunen, Julie L. "Water Management, Ritual, and Community in Tropical Complex Societies." In Precolumbian Water Management: Ideology, Ritual, and Power, ed. Lisa J. Lucero and Barbara W. Fash. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2006. 100–115 pp. Examines water management and ritual in the formation and organization of ancient states, focusing on the Balinese and the Lowland Maya civilizations in which natural resources were managed by community-level institutions with strong ritual components.

Leikola, Matti. "The Development of Silviculture and Forest Management in twentieth Century Finland." In Essays on the History of Finnish Forestry, ed. Markku Rauhalahti. Punkaharju, Finland: Luston Tuki Oy, 2006. 33–48 pp. Describes the development of silviculture and forest management in Finland in the twentieth century, and explores future possibilities in Finnish forest management. Discusses the impact of forest management legislation passed in the late 1990s.

Lekson, Stephen H. "Europe, the New World, and Buildings Without History." In Canyon Gardens: The Ancient Pueblo Landscapes of the American Southwest, ed. V. B. Price and Baker H. Morrow. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2006. 1–15 pp. Contrasts previous views which posited ancient Pueblo Indians as a happy and peaceful "people without history." Draws on archaeological evidence and landscape architecture to argue that Pueblo history was at times tumultuous, with wars, rebellions, and natural disasters. Describes the migrations and settlements of the Pueblos between the ninth and fourteenth centuries.

Lepofsky, Dana Hallett Douglas, et al. "Documenting Precontact Plant Management on the Northwest Coast: An Example of Prescribed Burning in the Central and Upper Fraser Valley, British Columbia." In Keeping It Living: Traditions of Plant Use and Cultivation on the Northwest Coast of North America, ed. Douglas Deur and Nancy J. Turner. Seattle and Vancouver: University of Washington Press//UBC Press, 2005. 218–239 pp. Summarizes research on prescribed burning among the Stó:lo of the Fraser Valley, British Columbia, Canada, documenting that the practice was widespread in the historic period and exploring its possible extension back into the period before European contact.

Levins, Richard. "On Sugar, Capitalism, and Socialism." Capitalism Nature Socialism 17 (December 2006): 125–136. Review essay of Reinventing the Cuban Sugar Agroindustry, ed. Jorge F. Perez-Lopez and José Alvarez. Traces the transformation of sugar from a plant with various botanical properties to a commodity and agroindustry in Cuba in the 2000s. Offer's an ecologist's analysis of Cuba's sugar industry from the perspectives of capitalism and socialism. Reviewer critiques the book's anti-socialist bias.

Lucero, Lisa J. "The Political and Sacred Power of Water in Classic Maya Society." In Precolumbian Water Management: Ideology, Ritual, and Power, ed. Lisa J. Lucero and Barbara W. Fash. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2006. 116–128 pp. Explores the role of water in the political and ritual life of the Mayan people during the Late Classic period (c. AD 550–850), arguing that seasonal water availability influenced settlement and political structure.

Mahoney, Shane. "The Seven Sisters: Pillars of the North American Conservation Model." Fair Chase 21 (Winter 2006): 20–25. Describes the history and principles of the North American conservation model, with particular attention to the role of hunters and anglers. Traces the model back to the 1800s, and delineates seven pillars of American conservation philosophy. These include public trust, prohibitions on commerce, democratic rule of law, hunting opportunity for all, non-frivolous use, international resources, and scientific management.

Manore, Jean L. "Contested Terrains of Space and Place: Hunting and the Landscape Known as Algonquin Park, 1890–1950." In The Culture of Hunting in Canada, ed. Jean L. Manore and Dale G. Miner. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2006. 121–147 pp. Examines debates among hunters, settlers, and Native peoples surrounding wildlife and government regulation of hunting in Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada, from 1890 to 1950.

Marks, Robert B. ""People Said Extinction Was Not Possible": Two Thousand Years of Environmental Change in South China." In Rethinking Environmental History: World-System History and Global Environmental Change, ed. Alf Hornborg, J. R. McNeill, and Joan Martinez-Alier. Lanham: Altamira Press, 2007. 41–59 pp. Explores the history of the Chinese landscape as it has been changed by humans, from the beginning of the 1st century to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Drawing on the continuous written record of Chinese history, asserts that every inch of Chinese land has been affected by humans, and that plant and animal species extinctions have resulted from these anthropogenic changes.

Martinez-Alier, Joan. "Marxism, Social Metabolism, and International Trade." In Rethinking Environmental History: World-System History and Global Environmental Change, ed. Alf Hornborg, J. R. McNeill, and Joan Martinez-Alier. Lanham: Altamira Press, 2007. 221–237 pp. Explores the debate between the money-focused view of the economy and the ecological view, which emphasizes the flow of energy in the economy. Discusses Marx's use of the idea of "metabolism" between human society and nature. Offers a critique of Marxist historians, who conducted no calculations of energy and material flows, and of capitalism, which is based on exploitation of resources as well as labor. Suggests a foundation for modern theories of ecologically unequal exchange, based upon the Patrick Geddes' 1884 framework for calculations of material flows, and applies it to a discussion of international trade.

McCaffrey, Katherine T., and Sherrie L. Baver. "'Ni Una Bomba Mas:' Reframing the Vieques Struggle." In Beyond Sun and Sand: Caribbean Environmentalisms, ed. Sherrie L. Baver and Barbara Deutsch Lynch. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2006. 109–128 pp. Traces the history of U.S. Naval operations on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques beginning in the 1940s, and the grassroots movement opposing the Navy's activities, which began in 1978. Examines the movement's transformation from a local cause to an international movement, and theorizes that this transformation resulted from activists reframing the movement in terms of environment, health, and human rights in the 1990s.

McDonald, James. "Cultivating in the Northwest: Early Accounts of Tsimshian Horticulture." In Keeping It Living: Traditions of Plant Use and Cultivation on the Northwest Coast of North America, ed. Douglas Deur and Nancy J. Turner. Seattle and Vancouver: University of Washington Press//UBC Press, 2005. 240–273 pp. Explores the role of gardening and plant management in the indigenous Tsimshian economy in the precontact period and the impact of colonization on management knowledge and practices in the Skeena River region of British Columbia, Canada.

McNeill, J. R. "Yellow Jack and Geopolitics: Environment, Epidemics, and the Struggles for Empire in the American Tropics, 1640–1830." In Rethinking Environmental History: World-System History and Global Environmental Change, ed. Alf Hornborg, J. R. McNeill, and Joan Martinez-Alier. Lanham: Altamira Press, 2007. 199–217 pp. Connects ecological and epidemiological history to imperial struggles in the tropical lowlands of America between 1640 and 1830. Argues that the sugar revolution created environmental conditions which enabled the rise of yellow fever. As a result, geopolitical conditions in the American tropics were altered, allowing Spain to retain much of Latin America despite the efforts of the British, Dutch, and French.

Miller, Marian A. L. "Paradise Sold, Paradise Lost." In Beyond Sun and Sand: Caribbean Environmentalisms, ed. Sherrie L. Baver and Barbara Deutsch Lynch. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2006. 35–44 pp. Discusses the commodification of natural and cultural resources in Jamaica as it relates to the rise of tourism on the island. Traces the beginnings of Jamaican tourism to the late 1800s and the advent of the banana trade with the U.S. Describes the impact of tourists on the island's coastal ecosystems, the implications of ecotourism for Jamaica's residents, and the relationship between the tourist economy and Jamaica's cultural heritage.

Moore, Jason W. "Silver, Ecology, and the Origins of the Modern World, 1450–1640." In Rethinking Environmental History: World-System History and Global Environmental Change, ed. Alf Hornborg, J. R. McNeill, and Joan Martinez-Alier. Lanham: Altamira Press, 2007. 123–142 pp. Examines the environmental consequences of early modern silver mining practices in central Europe from 1450 to 1640. Using silver mining as a case study, argues that environmental degradation is both a cause and an inevitable effect of the rise of capitalism.

Morrow, Baker H. "The Berry Gardens of Quarai and the Pocket Terraces of Abo." In Canyon Gardens: The Ancient Pueblo Landscapes of the American Southwest, ed. V. B. Price and Baker H. Morrow. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2006. 17–31 pp. Describes the gardening practices of Pueblo Indians in Abo and Quarai, now part of the Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument in New Mexico. Drawing on field research, analyzes the horticultural techniques of these two communities between the 1400s and the 1600s. Asserts that the ability to adapt gardening techniques to particular landscapes enabled both communities to survive the unpredictable climate.

Moss, Madonna L. "Tlingit Horticulture: An Indigenous or Introduced Development?" In Keeping It Living: Traditions of Plant Use and Cultivation on the Northwest Coast of North America, ed. Douglas Deur and Nancy J. Turner. Seattle and Vancouver: University of Washington Press//UBC Press, 2005. 274–295 pp. Examines evidence for pre-contact and post-contact horticulture among the Tlingit people in the southeast Alaska region. Uses ethnographic and ethnohistorical data to document the intensification of gardening in the nineteenth century, and assesses the importance of horticulture for land use and settlement in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Myrdal, Janken. "Food, War, and Crisis: The Seventeenth Century Swedish Empire." In Rethinking Environmental History: World-System History and Global Environmental Change, ed. Alf Hornborg, J. R. McNeill, and Joan Martinez-Alier. Lanham: Altamira Press, 2007. 79–99 pp. Argues that the rise of the Swedish Empire can be viewed as a reaction to seventeenth century European crises. Describes the impact of these crises,including economic stagnation, competition for food and other resources, and war, and discusses their impact on the European economy, population, and ecology.

Nichols, Deborah L., et al. "Water Management and Political Economy in Formative Period Central Mexico." In Precolumbian Water Management: Ideology, Ritual, and Power, ed. Lisa J. Lucero and Barbara W. Fash. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2006. 51–66 pp. Examines irrigation in pre-Hispanic Central Mexico from the perspective of political economy, discussing how social stratification might have encouraged agricultural change (including landscape modification and innovation for irrigation).

Nicoll, Scott. "The Death of Rangeland Reform." Journal of Environmental Law and Litigation 21 (1 2006): 47–111. Analyzes public choice theory as it applies to rangeland reform. Explores Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt's 1993 attempt to reform public lands grazing, and the subsequent erosion of this attempt through legal and judicial challenges. Discusses the second Bush administration's efforts to revoke rangeland reform. Draws on public choice theory to predict that the significant influence of ranchers on the political process will prevent any major, rapid rangeland policy reforms. Concludes that gradual administrative reform is likely to be the most successful approach.

Notarianni, Philip F. "Tintic Mining District." In From the Ground Up: The History of Mining in Utah, ed. Colleen Whitley. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2006. 342–358 pp. History of mining of gold, silver, copper, lead, and zinc in Utah's Tintic Mining District (in the central part of the East Tintic Mountains), 1850s through 2000s.

Paaskoski, Leena. "Extensive Annual Rings — From the First Decade of Lusto." In Essays on the History of Finnish Forestry, ed. Markku Rauhalahti. Punkaharju, Finland: Luston Tuki Oy, 2006. 141–151 pp. Describes the history of Lusto, the Finnish Forest Museum, beginning with its opening in 1994. Discusses the history of forest exhibitions in Finland from the 1850s, and addresses the need to preserve the heritage of the forest industry and culture in Finland.

Paavola, Jouni. "Interstate Water Pollution Problems and Elusive Federal Water Pollution Policy in the United States, 1900–1948." Environment and History 12 (November 2006): 435–465. Examines water pollution and federal and interstate pollution control in the United States from 1900 through the post-World War II era.

Pakkanen, Esko. "Timber Floating in Finland — Then and Now." In Essays on the History of Finnish Forestry, ed. Markku Rauhalahti. Punkaharju, Finland: Luston Tuki Oy, 2006. 118–140 pp. Describes the history of log floating in Finland from the mid-sixteenth century to the early twenty-first century.

Palo, Matti. "Coevolution of Forestry and Society in Finland: From Preindustrial to Industrial Forestry." In Essays on the History of Finnish Forestry, ed. Markku Rauhalahti. Punkaharju, Finland: Luston Tuki Oy, 2006. 49–99 pp. Analyzes the relationship between forestry and society in Finland between the fourteenth century and the 1950s. Focuses in particular on the first half of the twentieth century, as Finnish forestry has changed from a preindustrial to a postindustrial field. Examines the roles of wars and foreign technology in this transition, as well as the effects of ecological conditions, market factors, and political and cultural institutions.

Powell, Allan Kent. "Coal Industry." In From the Ground Up: The History of Mining in Utah, ed. Colleen Whitley. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2006. 126–141 pp. History of coal mining in Utah from its discovery by Mormon pioneers in 1851 through the early twenty-first century. Examines labor conditions and company towns.

Pritchard, Sara B. "'Paris et le Désert Français:' Urban and Rural Environments in Post-World War II France." In The Nature of Cities: Culture, Landscape, and Urban Space, ed. Andrew C. Isenberg. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2006. 175–191 pp. Examines French government attempts to define and manage urban and rural places, as well as balance national interests and regional demands, in the post-World War II era.

Queiroz, Ana Isabel, and Maria Teresa L. M. B. Andresen. "Wild Birds in Aquilino Ribeiro's Writings: Using Literature as a Source for Environmental History." In What Are the Animals to Us? Approaches from Science, Religion, Folklore, Literature, and Art, ed. Dave Afrandilian, Marion W. Copeland, and David Scofield Wilson. Knoxville: University of Tennessee, 2007. 141–160 pp. Analyzes historical data on wild birds in the works of Portuguese writer Aquilino Ribeiro (1885–1963), demonstrating methods for analyzing literature based on nature descriptors (both taxonomic and thematic), as well as how Ribeiro's writings can be used as a source for the environmental history of the Beira Alta region.

Rajala, Richard A. "'No Camp Large or Small Will Be Missed': The IWA and the Loggers' Navy in British Columbia, 1935–1945." Pacific Northwest Quarterly 97 (Summer 2006): 115–125. Examines the labor organization of loggers in the remote camps of British Columbia's north coast and Queen Charlotte Islands during the World War II era, 1935–1945.

Rauhalahti, Markku. "Developments in the Use of Finnish Forests." In Essays on the History of Finnish Forestry, ed. Markku Rauhalahti. Punkaharju, Finland: Luston Tuki Oy, 2006. 101–117 pp. Traces developments in Finnish forestry from the 1850s to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Describes changes in tools and machinery, logging sites, forest ownership, and resource use and consumption. Discusses the impact of logging's mechanization and structural changes in the forest industry.

Rauhalahti, Markku. "The Finnish Forest History Society: The First Decennary 1995–2005." In Essays on the History of Finnish Forestry, ed. Markku Rauhalahti. Punkaharju, Finland: Luston Tuki Oy, 2006. 153–161 pp. Describes the history of the Finnish Forest History Society, beginning with its founding in 1995. Discusses the Society's by-laws, activities, research projects, and publications.

Reeve, W. Paul. "Silver Reef and Southwestern Utah's Shifting Frontier." In From the Ground Up: The History of Mining in Utah, ed. Colleen Whitley. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2006. 250–271 pp. History of the Silver Reef mining area in Washington County, southwestern Utah, 1860s through the early twentieth century. Examines the effects of silver and oil booms on local communities and environment.

Replinger, Peter J. "Stimson Timber Company, Including the C. B. & M. Incline." Tall Timber Short Lines 84 (Fall 2006): 13–27. One in a series of articles about logging railroads in Mason County, Washington. Describes the Stimson Timber Company's railroad logging operation on Hood Canal, Washington, from 1913 to 1931.

Ringholz, Raye Carleson. "Uranium Boom." In From the Ground Up: The History of Mining in Utah, ed. Colleen Whitley. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2006. 142–165 pp. History of uranium mining in Utah, focusing on the mid-twentieth century "boom" that occurred as a result of advances in nuclear technology. Examines economic impacts, public health concerns, and the experiences of prospectors.

Romig, Kenneth A. "Mary Jane Colter and the Ancestral Puebloan Tradition." In Canyon Gardens: The Ancient Pueblo Landscapes of the American Southwest, ed. V. B. Price and Baker H. Morrow. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2006. 133–144 pp. Describes the efforts of National Park Service architect and interior designer Mary Colter to foster an understanding of ancestral Pueblo Indian design strategies. Argues that Colter's own architectural designs, particularly in Grand Canyon National Park, served to incorporate a vision of Pueblo history into the structures and landscapes of the developing National Park system in the early 1900s.

Santmire, H. Paul, and John B. Cobb, Jr. "The World of Nature According to the Protestant Tradition." In The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Ecology, ed. Roger S. Gottlieb. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. 115–146 pp. Traces the history of the sixteenth century Protestant Reformation in Europe and its ideological impact, particularly with regard to theological ideas about nature. Examines the teachings of Martin Luther and John Calvin and the impact of their ideas on Protestant denominations' attitudes toward nature in the twentieth century and the twenty-first century. Explores the philosophies of seventeenth century philosopher John Locke, eighteenth century philosopher Immanuel Kant and the challenges presented to Christianity by Charles Darwin's theory of evolution in the nineteenth century. Discusses Protestant responses to and conceptions of the modern ecological crisis.

Scarborough, Vernon. "An Overview of Mesoamerican Water Systems." In Precolumbian Water Management: Ideology, Ritual, and Power, ed. Lisa J. Lucero and Barbara W. Fash. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2006. 223–235 pp. Synthesizes scholarly work on water management and political ecology in Mesoamerica and the Southwest, providing a broad economic and ecological context for water management systems.

Seegmiller, Janet. "Iron County." In From the Ground Up: The History of Mining in Utah, ed. Colleen Whitley. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2006. 197–219 pp. History of mining in Iron County, Utah, mid-nineteenth through mid-twentieth centuries.

Simpson, Mark. "Powers of Liveness: Reading Hornaday's Camp-Fires." In The Culture of Hunting in Canada, ed. Jean L. Manore and Dale G. Miner. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2006. 56–85 pp. Examines tensions surrounding class, race, hunting, and animal conservation as seen in William Temple Hornaday's 1906 hunting travelogue, Camp-Fires in the Canadian Rockies. Reads the text in light of Hornaday's work as a taxidermist, conservationist, and zoologist, seeking to understand the meanings of "liveness" for elite, white hunting culture at the turn of the twentieth century.

Smith, Bruce D. "Low-Level Food Production and the Northwest Coast." In Keeping It Living: Traditions of Plant Use and Cultivation on the Northwest Coast of North America, ed. Douglas Deur and Nancy J. Turner. Seattle and Vancouver: University of Washington Press//UBC Press, 2005. 37–66 pp. In relation to the indigenous populations of the Northwest Coast of North America, explores the concept of a "middle ground" between hunter-gatherer societies and agricultural ones dependent on the management and production of domesticated plants and animals.

Snead, James E. "Mirror of the Earth: Water, Landscape, and Meaning in the Precolumbian Southwest." In Precolumbian Water Management: Ideology, Ritual, and Power, ed. Lisa J. Lucero and Barbara W. Fash. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2006. 205–220 pp. Reports on an ethnographic study of water and landscape in the Ancestral Pueblo world, as shown through one type of water-control feature, the reservoir. Uses data from the Late Coalition/Classic periods (AD 1200–1550) of New Mexico's Rio Grande region to explore the issue of vernacular/sacred landscapes in the archaeological record.

Soto-Lopez, Ricardo. "Environmental Justice for Puerto Ricans in the Northeast: A Participant-Observer's Assessment." In Beyond Sun and Sand: Caribbean Environmentalisms, ed. Sherrie L. Baver and Barbara Deutsch Lynch. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2006. 131–139 pp. Discusses the environmental justice movements launched by Puerto Rican emigrants to the northeastern United States, mainly in New York City. Traces the history of these struggles beginning in the 1940s, including opposition to zoning laws that negatively impacted Puerto Rican communities, pollution, and other issues. Proposes an analytical framework for land use aspects of environmental justice movements.

Sperling, David L. "Across the Trestles of Time." Wisconsin Natural Resources 30 (December 2006): 10–14. Describes the Badger and the Badger No. 2, rail cars built in the 1890s-1910s by the Wisconsin Fisheries Commission for transporting fish hatchery fry for stocking the state's waters. The Badger No. 2 was acquired by the Mid-Continent Railway Historical Society in 1960 and is marked for restoration as of 2006.

Staedtler, Margarita Carballal, and María Flores Hernández. "Hydraulic Features of the Mexico-Texcoco Lakes during the Postclassic Period." In Precolumbian Water Management: Ideology, Ritual, and Power, ed. Lisa J. Lucero and Barbara W. Fash. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2006. 155–170 pp. Focuses on hydrologic characteristics, including hydraulic features and environmental modifications, of the Basin of Mexico during the Post-classic period (AD 750–1519). Highlights the complex economic and political factors involved in the building of pre-Hispanic water management systems.

Stroud, Ellen. "Dead Bodies in Harlem: Environmental History and the Geography of Death." In The Nature of Cities: Culture, Landscape, and Urban Space, ed. Andrew C. Isenberg. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2006. 62–76 pp. Examines struggles over the environmental effects of the processing and disposal of human corpses in New York City, 1830s to 1990s, especially neighborhood protests in 1991 over smells and toxic pollution from the Trinity Church Crematorium in Harlem. Explores perceptions of dead bodies and views about their proper disposal, arguing that an environmental history of the corpse can provide new insights into urban political, social, and intellectual history.

Stuart, David E. "The Chaco Ancestral Puebloans: Lessons Learned." In Canyon Gardens: The Ancient Pueblo Landscapes of the American Southwest, ed. V. B. Price and Baker H. Morrow. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2006. 189–202 pp. Traces the history of the Pueblo Indians at Chaco Canyon (New Mexico) from 300 A.D. to 1500 A.D. Describes Chaco Canyon's role as the economic capital of Ancestral Pueblo culture until the 1150s, when its economy collapsed due to sudden climatic change, combined with other possible factors such as uncontrolled growth and unsustainable agricultural practices. Suggests parallels between the rise and fall of Chaco Canyon with the situation in early twenty-first century America, where unsustainable growth, agriculture, and economic structures threaten social and ecological stability. Proposes survival strategies for twenty-first century Americans based on those of the Chaco Canyon Pueblos.

Sundquist, Dan. "Gaining Ground: Measuring Our Progress in a New Century of Land Conservation." Forest Notes (Fall/Winter 2006): 2–7. Discusses the tensions between land conservation and development in New Hampshire in light of increasing in-migration to the state. Drawing on data from 2001 to 2006, analyzes trends in population growth, protection of forests and farmlands, water supply, and wildlife habitat.

Swentzell, Rina. "Conflicting Landscape Values: The Santa Clara Pueblo and Day School." In Canyon Gardens: The Ancient Pueblo Landscapes of the American Southwest, ed. V. B. Price and Baker H. Morrow. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2006. 125–132 pp. Case study of the Santa Clara Day School, designed and operated by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and the Santa Clara Pueblo. Contrasts the landscape and architecture of the school and the pueblo, with particular attention to the effects of the built environment on human psychology. Describes traditional Pueblo belief systems about human-made environments, and the history of the Bureau of Indian Affairs' construction projects on Indian reservations from 1890 to the 1940s.

Tasanen, Tapani. "Review of the Forest History of Finland from the Late Mediaeval to the End of 1800s." In Essays on the History of Finnish Forestry, ed. Markku Rauhalahti. Punkaharju, Finland: Luston Tuki Oy, 2006. 5–32 pp. Traces the history of forests and culture in Finland from the 1320s to the 1870s. Describes medieval Finns' dependence on forests, the impact of Swedish rule on Finland's forests from the sixteenth century until 1809, the establishment of a permanent forest administration in 1859, and the development and practice of the theory of silviculture in the nineteenth century.

Thorsheim, Peter. "Green Space and Class in Imperial London." In The Nature of Cities: Culture, Landscape, and Urban Space, ed. Andrew C. Isenberg. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2006. 24–37 pp. Examines green space and accompanying debates over property rights, respectability, and degeneration in imperial (late nineteenth century) London, England. Argues that parks, playgrounds, gardens, prisons, and other public spaces were a means by which people in power exercised discipline over bodies and minds, with the ultimate goals of strengthening and regulating society.

Tirosh-Samuelson, Hava. "Judaism." In The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Ecology, ed. Roger S. Gottlieb. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. 25–64 pp. Provides an overview of the relationship between Judaism and ecology, including a history of this relationship from the Late Bronze Age to the 1990s. Examines Jewish concepts of nature as described by religious texts, environmental ethics as described by Jewish legal sources, modern Jewish ideas about nature, and environmental issues and tensions that will be presented to Judaism in the future.

Toffolon-Weiss, Melissa, and Timmons Roberts. "Who Wins, Who Loses? Understanding Outcomes of Environmental Injustice Struggles." In Power, Justice, and the Environment: A Critical Appraisal of the Environmental Justice Movement, ed. David Naguib Pellow and Robert J. Brulle. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2006. 77–98 pp. Case study of two environmental justice struggles in the 1990s in Louisiana: the Louisiana Energy Services uranium enrichment plant siting in Claiborne Parish, and the Agriculture Street landfill Superfund site in New Orleans. Compares the movements and discusses possible reasons why environmental justice activists achieve success more easily in siting cases than in contamination cases.

Turner, Nancy J., and Sandra Peacock. "Solving the Perennial Paradox: Ethnobotanical Evidence for Plant Resource Management on the Northwest Coast." In Keeping It Living: Traditions of Plant Use and Cultivation on the Northwest Coast of North America, ed. Douglas Deur and Nancy J. Turner. Seattle and Vancouver: University of Washington Press//UBC Press, 2005. 101–150 pp. Broad overview of plant-people interactions on the Northwest Coast of North America, seeking to demonstrate that indigenous societies in the region were not simply foragers but active managers who cultivated and sustained plant resources that were culturally valued.

Turner, Nancy J., Robin Smith, and James T. Jones. "'A Fine Line Between Two Nations': Ownership Patterns for Plant Resources among Northwest Coast Indigenous Peoples." In Keeping It Living: Traditions of Plant Use and Cultivation on the Northwest Coast of North America, ed. Douglas Deur and Nancy J. Turner. Seattle and Vancouver: University of Washington Press//UBC Press, 2005. 151–178 pp. Explores patterns of land and resource ownership on the Northwest Coast of North America, analyzing the differences and interrelationships between European and Aboriginal concepts of property and their implications for plant management and conservation.

Valdés, Juan Antonio. "Water Management at Kaminaljuyu: The Beginnings of Power and Ideology in the Guatemalan Highlands." In Precolumbian Water Management: Ideology, Ritual, and Power, ed. Lisa J. Lucero and Barbara W. Fash. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2006. 67–77 pp. Examines irrigation systems at the site of Kaminaljuyu in the central highlands of Guatemala, arguing that its rulers successfully converted the city into a primary center as early as 700–600 BC using impressive new water-management technology.

Valdes Pizzini, Manuel. "Historical Contentions and Future Trends in the Coastal Zone." In Beyond Sun and Sand: Caribbean Environmentalisms, ed. Sherrie L. Baver and Barbara Deutsch Lynch. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2006. 44–64 pp. Examines the implications of "coastal gentrification" for the ecosystems of Puerto Rico, and traces the history of the environmental activist movements that have formed to oppose this process. Argues that an influx of wealthy home buyers and investors have resulted in unsustainable coastal development in Puerto Rico's coastal zones, and analyzes the development of the environmental movements of the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s. Includes discussion of military bases, agriculture, industrialization, environmental health, urban sprawl, and tourism. Proposes possible strategies for the future of Puerto Rican environmental movements.

Van de Wetering, Sarah B., and Matthew McKinney. "The Role of Mandatory Dispute Resolution in Federal Environmental Law: Lessons from the Clean Air Act." Journal of Environmental Law and Litigation 21 (1 2006): 1–45. Describes a section of the Clean Air Act, added in 1977, that mandated the use of a dispute-resolution process to settle disputes among Indian tribes, states, and the Environmental Protection Agency. Discusses the history of the provision and the only four cases of its invocation, suggesting that the Clean Air Act may serve as a lesson when crafting future dispute-resolution processes.

Vandergeest, Peter, and Nancy Lee Peluso. "Empires of Forestry: Professional Forestry and State Power in Southeast Asia, Part 2." Environment and History 12 (November 2006): 359–393. Examines the origins, spread, and practices of professional forestry in Southeast Asia, focusing on key sites in colonial and post-colonial Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand, mid-nineteenth through mid-twentieth centuries. Part 2 examines the influence on forestry of knowledge and management exchange through professional-scientific networks, arguing that postcolonial organizations like the Food and Agriculture Organization facilitated construction of forestry as a kind of empire after World War II.

Wagner, Debra. "Beryllium Mining." In From the Ground Up: The History of Mining in Utah, ed. Colleen Whitley. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2006. 166–170 pp. Brief history of mining beryllium ore in Utah, 1950s–1980s.

Walker, William H., and Gaea McGahee. "Animated Waters: Ritual Technology at Casas Grandes, Chihuahua." In Precolumbian Water Management: Ideology, Ritual, and Power, ed. Lisa J. Lucero and Barbara W. Fash. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2006. 189–204 pp. Examines the linkage between ritual and technological activity in water management among the Pueblo "hydraulic societies" of the American Southwest, using a case study of the late prehistoric town of Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, Mexico.

Whitehead, Bruce D., and Robert E. Rampton. "Bingham Canyon." In From the Ground Up: The History of Mining in Utah, ed. Colleen Whitley. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2006. 220–249 pp. History of mining in Bingham Canyon, Utah, mid-nineteenth century through 2000s.

Widgren, Mats. "Precolonial Landesque Capital: A Global Perspective." In Rethinking Environmental History: World-System History and Global Environmental Change, ed. Alf Hornborg, J. R. McNeill, and Joan Martinez-Alier. Lanham: Altamira Press, 2007. 61–77 pp. Explores the agricultural concept of "landesque capital," investments made in land that anticipate a life beyond the present crop, such as terraces or irrigation canals. Describes the application of this concept around the world, and argues that understanding old landesque capital will facilitate an understanding of agricultural history as well as future agricultural potential.

Wilk, Richard. "The Extractive Economy: An Early Phase of the Globalization of Diet, and Its Environmental Consequences." In Rethinking Environmental History: World-System History and Global Environmental Change, ed. Alf Hornborg, J. R. McNeill, and Joan Martinez-Alier. Lanham: Altamira Press, 2007. 179–198 pp. Discusses the indirect effects of extractive economies and their relationships with social organizations. Examines the globalization of food systems from the seventeenth century to the nineteenth century, asserting that this era exemplifies the globalization of diet throughout much of history. Argues that the environmental impacts of this food system must be analyzed within a framework of culture and gender.

Williams, Michael. "The Role of Deforestation in Earth and World-System Integration." In Rethinking Environmental History: World-System History and Global Environmental Change, ed. Alf Hornborg, J. R. McNeill, and Joan Martinez-Alier. Lanham: Altamira Press, 2007. 101–122 pp. Argues for the necessity of integrating the histories of the world-system, embodied by social theory, and the Earth system, as evidenced by global environmental change. Traces the history of deforestation in Europe from the 1st century B.C. to the eighteenth century, and in North American from the nineteenth century to the twentieth century. Uses case studies to examine the history of deforestation in light of the integration of the world-system and the earth-system, with particular attention to the Wallersteinian/Braudelian economic model.

Wurman, Leonard H. "Conservation Timeline: National Wildlife Refuges." Fair Chase 21 (Winter 2006): 16–18. Events leading up to Theodore Roosevelt's creation of the National Wildlife Refuge system in 1903.

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