Environmental History links
Call for Papers
Environmental Change, Agricultural Sustainability, and Economic Development in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam
Can Tho University, Can Tho, Vietnam. March 25-27, 2010.
Emphasis will be on papers that consider the social, cultural, and historical context and implications of agricultural practices and technology in the Mekong Delta. All paper presentations will be in English. The conference will include a field trip to rice growing areas in the Delta.
Full details at: H-Net or Can Tho University
For more information contact Mart Stewart, Professor, Department of History
Western Washington University, Bellingham, USA
e-mail mart.stewart@wwu.edu
Australian Sites
Australian Forest History Society
http://www.foresthistory.org.au
The Society operates as a friendly network of people interested in the history of Australia's and New Zealand's forests and woodlands. Members come from a wide variety of disciplines, backgrounds and walks of life. It was formed in 1988 and became formally incorporated in the ACT on 27 May 1998.
Australian Garden History Society
http://www.gardenhistorysociety.org.au
Publishes Australian Garden History six times a year
Ecological Humanities
http://www.ecologicalhumanities.org
The ecological humanities bring together ways of knowing and interacting with the world from the sciences and the humanities, as well as from indigenous and other 'non-western' worldviews, nourishing the connectivities and possibilities that these dialogues produce for people and the more-than-human environment.
Into the Desert
Into the desert: audio blog
Listen to Adjunct Professor Mike Smith as he narrates his trek with a string of camels into the southern Simpson Desert
Light Railway Research Society of Australia
http://www.lrrsa.org.au
Publishes Light Railways six times a year and books on forest and mining tramway systems
International Sites
- International Consortium of Environmental History Organizations (ICEHO)
- American Society for Environmental History
- Documenting Environmental Change at the Centre for History and Economics at King's College, Cambridge
- Environmental History Resources
- European Society for Environmental History
- Forest History Society (US)
- History and Sustainability at the Centre for History and Economics at King's College, Cambridge
- Institute for Environmental History (St Andrews)
- International Project on the History of Environmental Prediction
- Network in Canadian History & Environment (NiCHE)
- Research Centre for Environmental History (Stirling)
- Siberia Ornithology - Australian Style, 1903
Journals
- Environment and History
Published by Whitehorse Press with British-based Editorial collective - Environmental History
Copublished quarterly by the American Society for Environmental History and the (US) Forest History Society - Global Environment: A Journal of History and Natural and Social Sciences
Publishes environmental and world history, with special regard to the modern and contemporary ages. The journal's main commitment is to bring together different areas of expertise in both natural and social sciences to help them to find a common language and a common perspective in the study of history.

