The Routledge Handbook of Environmental History

The Routledge Handbook of Environmental History presents a cutting-edge overview of the dynamic and ever-expanding field of environmental history. It addresses recent transformations in the field and responses to shifting scholarly, political, and environmental landscapes.

Emily O'Gorman is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow and Associate Professor at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. Her research is situated within environmental history and the interdisciplinary environmental humanities, and is primarily concerned with contested knowledges within broader cultural framings of authority, expertise, and landscapes. William San Martín is Assistant Professor of Global Environmental Science, Technology, and Governance at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA, and a Research Fellow at the Earth System Governance Project at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. His work examines power disparities across environmental knowledge, technologies, and governance regimes. Mark Carey is Professor of Environmental Studies and Geography at the University of Oregon, USA. He runs the Glacier Lab for the Study of Ice and Society, collaborating with students and scientists to study environmental history, ice humanities, and climate justice. Sandra Swart is Professor and Chair of the History Department at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. She studies African socio-environmental history, focusing on human-animal relations.

Introduction: Framing Environmental History Today and for the Future, Part I: New Methods, Innovative Approaches, 1. Ethics, Justice, and Environmental Histories, 2. Oral and Environmental History: Time, Place, Decolonisation and the More-Than-Human World, 3. Sounding Environments, 4. Geographical Information System, Remote Sensing and Spatial Data Infrastructure, Part II: Non-Human Agencies, 5. The Tangled Bank, 6. Multispecies Cultures and Environmental Change: The Animal (Agency) Turn, 7. Animal and Vector-Borne Diseases, Zoonoses, and One Health, 8. The Non-Human in Agriculture: Technologies of Agriculture and Non-Human Aspects of Farming, 9. (Inter)national and (Trans)regional Agents: The Coastal Sand Dunes of Mozambique, 10. Actor-Networks, Conservation Treaties, and International Environmental History: Re-assembling Conventions, 11. Hazards and Disasters: Locusts, Earthquakes, Volcanoes, Floods, Droughts, Part III: Engaging with the Planetary and the Anthropocene, 12. Planetary Boundaries, Climate Change and the Anthropocene, 13. Extinction in Environmental History: Historizing Problems of Classification and Intentionality, 14. Temporality and Environmental History in the Anthropocene: Timing Climates, Modeling Futures, 15. Fossil Fuels from Extraction to Emissions, Part IV: Power, Flows, and Knowledges, 16. Global Histories of Environment and Labour in Asia and Africa, 17. Toxicity, Racial Capitalism and Colonial Mining: Lessons from Cyanide and Gold Mining in Zimbabwe (Southern Rhodesia), 18. Local Fishermen Knowledge and Scientific Expertise in Eastern Europe and West Africa: Assessing the Unseen, 19. Historical Memory and Technocratic Failures in Environmental Impact Assessments, 20. Cities, Food, Water, and Environmental History in China, the USA and India: Making Bubbles, 21. Urban Environmental Governance: Historical and Political Ecological Perspectives from South Asia, Part V: Practices and Actions for Current Socio-Ecological Crises, 22 . Pedagogy for the Depressed: Empowerment and Hope in the Face of the Apocalypse, 23. Activist Environmental History: On War Machines and Guerrilla Strategies, 24. Communicating Environmental History: Reaching Diverse Audiences through Online Forums, 25. Environmental History in Museums: Past Practice and Future Opportunities, 26. Environmental Historians, Policy, and Governance, Future Directions in Environmental History