Arcadia

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Arcadia: Explorations in Environmental History is an open-access, peer-reviewed online journal for short, illustrated, and engaging environmental histories. Embedded in a particular time and place, each story focuses on a site, event, person, organization, or species as it relates to nature and human society. The journal promotes accessibility and visibility of original research in global environmental history and cognate disciplines.

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Current Issue

2024

Published March 18, 2025

Spring

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    Ingo K. Heidbrink

    One Century of Reindeer on South Georgia: From Introduction to Eradication

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9766
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    Yoram Carboex

    Dreams of Optimizing the Ocean: The 1970 Deepsea Ventures Mining Test and Artificial Upwelling

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9785
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    Vipul Singh

    Ecopolitical Space in a Riverine Landscape of South Asia

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9810
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    Ivo Strahilov

    Boiling Memories: Thermal Waters as Nexus of Trauma and Community Agency in Draginovo’s Mnemonic Waterscape

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9829
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    Jan Schweizer

    Limits of the Landscape: A Waste Incinerator for Zurich’s Countryside

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9830
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    Nils Johansson

    The Becoming of Single Use: The Institutionalization of Disposables during the Twentieth Century in Sweden

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9699
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    Diane Smith

    The Sierra Nevada Still in Peril

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9838