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Weaving : postcolonial and multispecies politics of plants -- Leaking : containment and recalcitrance of swamps -- Infecting : irrigation, mosquitoes, and malaria in wartime -- Crossing : wildlife in agriculture -- Enclosing : pelicans, protected areas, and private property -- Migrating : wetlands, transcontinental bird movements, and global environmental crisis -- Rippling : capitalism, seals, and baselines.

"Offering important new historical understandings of human responses to climate and climate change, this cutting-edge volume explores the dynamic relationship between settlement, climate, and colonization. The contributions gathered here consider a wide range of interrelated topics, among them the use of scientific evidence in historical research, the physical impact of climate on agriculture and land development, and changing understandings of climate, including the development of "folk" and government meteorologies. They reveal Australasia to be a remarkably varied and fertile area for analyzing cultural responses to climate as well as the wider social ramifications of historical climatic events"--

"19th-century British imperial expansion dramatically shaped today's globalised world. Imperialism encouraged mass migrations of people, shifting flora, fauna and commodities around the world and led to a series of radical environmental changes never before experienced in history. Eco-Cultural Networks and the British Empire explores how these networks shaped ecosystems, cultures and societies throughout the British Empire, and how they were themselves transformed by local and regional conditions.This multi-authored volume begins with a rigorous theoretical analysis of the categories of 'empire' and 'imperialism'. Its chapters, written by leading scholars in the field, draw methodologically from recent studies in environmental history, post-colonial theory, and the history of science. Together, these perspectives provide a comprehensive historical understanding of how the British Empire reshaped the globe during the 19th and 20th centuries. This book will be an important addition to the literature on British imperialism and global ecological change"--

"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. The handbook fully and critically engages with recent exciting changes, contextualizes them within longer-term shifts in the field, and charts potential new directions for study. It focuses on five key areas: Theories and concepts related to changing considerations of social justice, including postcolonial, antiracist, and feminist approaches, and the field's growing emphasis on multiple human voices and agencies. The roles of non-humans and the more-than-human in the telling of environmental histories, from animals and plants to insects as vectors of disease and the influences of water and ice, the changing theoretical approaches and the influence of concepts in related areas such as animal and discard studies. How changes in theories and concepts are shaping methods in environmental history and shifting approaches to traditional sources like archives and oral histories as well as experiments by practitioners with new methods and sources. Responses to a range of current complex problems, such as climate change, and how environmental historians can best help mitigate and resolve these problems. Diverse ways in which environmental historians disseminate their research within and beyond academia, including new modes of research dissemination, teaching, and engagements with stakeholders and the policy arena. This is an important resource for environmental historians, researchers and students in the related fields of political ecology, environmental studies, natural resources management and environmental planning"--

Introduction: Framing environmental history today and for the future / Emily O'Gorman, Mark Carey, William San Martín, and Sandra Swart -- Ethics, justice, and environmental histories / Heather Goodall, Meera Anna Oommen, and Madhuri Mondal -- Oral and environmental history : time, place, decolonisation and the more-than human world / Katie Holmes and Aet Annist -- Sounding environments / Hedley Twidle and Aragorn Eloff -- Geographical information system, remote sensing and spatial data infrastructure / Marina Miraglia and Kairo da Silva Santos -- The tangled bank / Harriet Ritvo and Rebecca Woods -- Multispecies cultures and environmental change : the animal (agency) turn / Diogo de Carvalho Cabral and Heta Lähdesmäki -- Animal and vector-borne diseases, zoonoses, and one health / Lyle Fearnley and Melissa Salm -- The non-human in agriculture : technologies of agriculture and non-human aspects of farming / Veronika Settele and Claiton Marcio da Silva -- (Inter)national and (Trans)regional agents : the coastal sand dunes of Mozambique / Joana Gaspar de Freitas, Inês Macamo Raimundo, Ignacio García Pereda, and Dissanayake Mudiyanselage Ruwan Sampath -- Actor-networks, conservation treaties, and international environmental history: Reassembling conventions / Raf de Bont and Simone Schleper -- Hazards and disasters : locusts, earthquakes, volcanoes, floods, droughts / Katrin Kleemann and Admire Mseba -- Planetary boundaries, climate change and the Anthropocene / Ruth Morgan and Cristián Simonetti -- Extinction in environmental history : historizing problems of classification and intentionality / Dolly Jørgensen and Miles Powell -- Temporality and environmental history in the Anthropocene : timing climates, modeling futures / Emil Flatø and Erik Isberg -- Fossil fuels from extraction to emissions / Antoine Acker, Elizabeth Chatterjee, Lukas Becker, Matthew Shutzer, and Nathalia Capellini -- Global histories of environment and labour in Asia and Africa / Mattin Biglari and Olisa Godson Muojama -- Toxicity, racial capitalism and colonial mining : lessons from cyanide and gold mining in Zimbabwe (Southern Rhodesia) / Elijah Doro and Marco Armiero -- Local fishermen knowledge and scientific expertise in Eastern Europe and West Africa: Assessing the unseen / Stefan Dorondel, Veronica Mitroi-Tisseyre, and Youssoupha Tall -- Historical memory and technocratic failures in environmental impact assessments / Javiera Barandiarán and Ricardo Oyarzún -- Cities, food, water, and environmental history in China, the USA and India: Making bubbles / Shen Hou and David Biggs -- Urban environmental governance: Historical and political ecological perspectives from South Asia / Jenia Mukherjee and René Véron -- Pedagogy for the depressed : empowerment and hope in the face of the apocalypse / Michelle K. Berry and Emily Wakild -- Activist environmental history : on war machines and guerrilla strategies / Regina Horta Duarte, Bruna Luiza Costa Pessoa, and Lucas Erichsen -- Communicating environmental history : reaching diverse audiences through online forums / Jonatan Palmblad and Jessica M. DeWitt -- Environmental history in museums : past practice and future opportunities / Luke Keogh, Liisi Jääts, Nina Möllers, and Libby Robin -- Environmental historians, policy, and governance / Alessandro Antonello and Margaret Cook -- Future directions in environmental history / Cintia Velázquez-Marroni, Jessica Urwin, Nicolo Paolo Ludovice, Bryan Umaru Kauma, Sangay Tamang, and Jayson Maurice Porter.