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The ‘Mystery’ of Lop Nor: Empire, Geographical ‘Problems’ and Climate Change on the Silk Roads 罗布泊之谜：丝绸之路上的帝国、地理 "问题 "和气候变化
IF 1.1 3区 历史学
Environment and History Pub Date : 2024-06-15 DOI: 10.3828/whp.eh.63830915903600
Lachlan Fleetwood
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Bad Weather and State-Building: Effective Urban Water Management during a Drought in Colonial Hong Kong, 1963–1964 恶劣天气与国家建设：1963-1964年殖民地时期香港旱灾期间有效的城市水资源管理
IF 1.1 3区 历史学
Environment and History Pub Date : 2024-06-07 DOI: 10.3828/whp.eh.63830915903594
David Clayton, Florence Mok
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Political Acceptance of Dangerous Technology: The Example of Leaded Petrol through the Case Study of Switzerland (1921–1970) 政治上接受危险技术：通过瑞士案例研究看含铅汽油的例子（1921-1970 年）
IF 1.1 3区 历史学
Environment and History Pub Date : 2024-05-15 DOI: 10.3828/whp.eh.63830915903593
Tiphaine Robert
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Ignorance and Environmental History: The Opening of an Arctic Offshore Oil Frontier, 1968–1976 无知与环境历史：北极近海石油疆域的开辟，1968-1976 年
IF 1.1 3区 历史学
Environment and History Pub Date : 2024-05-07 DOI: 10.3828/whp.eh.63830915903590
Andrew Stuhl
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Shanghai and the Smoke Fiend: Obstacles to the Control of Urban Smoke, 1869–1943 上海与烟魔：控制城市烟雾的障碍，1869-1943 年
IF 1.1 3区 历史学
Environment and History Pub Date : 2024-05-07 DOI: 10.3828/whp.eh.63830915903592
Xiaojie Li, David S. Jones
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Agency under German Occupation: Conservationist Policy-Making in The Netherlands, 1940–1945 德国占领下的机构：1940-1945 年荷兰的保护主义决策
IF 1.1 3区 历史学
Environment and History Pub Date : 2024-05-07 DOI: 10.3828/whp.eh.63830915903591
Kristian Mennen
{"title":"Agency under German Occupation: Conservationist Policy-Making in The Netherlands, 1940–1945","authors":"Kristian Mennen","doi":"10.3828/whp.eh.63830915903591","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/whp.eh.63830915903591","url":null,"abstract":"The paper provides a political history of nature conservation in the Netherlands during the Second World War, 1940–1945. Nature and nature conservation were not mere victims of Nazi German oppression or destruction; rather, conservationist organisations clearly had agency under difficult circumstances. The movement’s leaders were accustomed to using informal contacts, semi-formal arrangements and back channel deals with government authorities and agencies, and continued to exert influence on the new Department of Education, Science and Protection of Culture with considerable success after 1940. Although these consultation structures and the Department’s power to impose measures by decree could not always prevent severe damage, this story sheds new light on the history of the nature conservation movement as an historical actor in its own right under the conditions of war and occupation.\u0000 \u0000 This article was published open access under a CC BY licence:\u0000 https://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0\u0000 .\u0000","PeriodicalId":45574,"journal":{"name":"Environment and History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141002438","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Joy L. K. Pachuau and Willem van Schendel, Entangled Lives: Human-Animal-Plant Histories of the Eastern Himalayan Triangle Joy L. K. Pachuau 和 Willem van Schendel，《纠缠不清的生命》：喜马拉雅山脉东部三角区的人类-动物-植物历史
IF 1.1 3区 历史学
Environment and History Pub Date : 2024-05-01 DOI: 10.3828/whp.eh.63830915903588
Harrison Croft
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Royden Loewen, Mennonite Farmers: A Global History of Place and Sustainability Royden Loewen，《门诺派农民》：地方与可持续性的全球历史
IF 1.1 3区 历史学
Environment and History Pub Date : 2024-05-01 DOI: 10.3828/whp.eh.63830915903587
Benjamin W. Goossen
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‘The Accommodative Apparatus’: Drawing the Life of Sex Work on the Eroding Coast of Sundarbans 适应装置"：描绘孙德尔本斯侵蚀海岸上的性工作生活
IF 1.1 3区 历史学
Environment and History Pub Date : 2024-05-01 DOI: 10.3828/whp.eh.63830915903585
Amrita Dasgupta
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Mimicking Lyrebirds in Multispecies History 多物种历史中的模仿琴鸟
IF 1.1 3区 历史学
Environment and History Pub Date : 2024-05-01 DOI: 10.3828/whp.eh.63830915903583
Ruby Ekkel
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