Como um Olhar de Pássaro?
Melo, C. J. de ., Arruda, G., & Clare, P. . (2022). Como um Olhar de Pássaro?. Historia Ambiental Latinoamericana Y Caribeña (HALAC) Revista De La Solcha, 12(1), 21–36. https://doi.org/10.32991/2237-2717.2022v12i1.p21-36 Looking at the past as a foreign country is perhaps an impossible challenge when we consider the cultural, subjective, identity burden present…
Environmental Histories of Mediterranean Fascisms
The Volume 25 is a Special Issue of Perspectivas - Journal of Political Science contains two articles that address issues relating to Spanish colonization. The first is about Colonization in Badajoz Province, and the second about the Environmental Coloniality in Francoist Spain. The other two articles focus on European Countries. One of…
Henriques, S.T. (2011) Energy Transitions, economic growth and structural change: Portugal in a long-run comparative perspective
Modern economic growth previously implied a shift in the quantities and quality of energy, from renewable energy sources towards fossil fuels and electricity. This shift brought stress to the environment with climate change being one of its most serious consequences. Another shift from fossil fuels to low carbon energy now…
The Consequences of ‘Flying Sands’ in the Cávado River Mouth (1700–1750)
ALTERAÇÕES AMBIENTAIS EM PERSPECTIVA HISTÓRICA
O dossier Alterações Ambientais em Perspetiva Histórica é o resultado do II Encontro da Rede Portuguesa de História do Ambiente — REPORT(H)A — que, sob o lema Desafos Ambientais Numa Perspetiva Histórica, foi organizado pelo Centro de História da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa (CH-FLUL) e pelo Instituto…
New Natures - Joining Environmental History with Science and Technology Studies
New Natures broadens the dialogue between the disciplines of science and technology studies (STS) and environmental history in hopes of deepening and even transforming understandings of human-nature interactions. The volume presents richly developed historical studies that explicitly engage with key STS theories, offering models for how these theories can help…
"O clima do Noroeste de Portugal (1600-1855): dos discursos aos impactos / The climate of Northwest Portugal (1600-1855): from discourses to impacts", by Luís Pedro Silva (University of Porto, Portugal)
Resumo: O presente trabalho centra-se na análise do clima e dos estados do tempo no Noroeste de Portugal, entre o início do século XVII e meados do século XIX. O tema escolhido decorre de um problema de fundo: em que medida as variações climáticas e os extremos hidrometeorológicos marcaram as condições…
"Wildlife at War in Angola: The rise and fall of an African Eden", by Brian Huntley
This book describes in fascinating detail the wildlife, wild places and wild personalities that occupied Angola’s conservation landscape through four decades of war and a decade of peace. Intrigues, assassinations, corruption, greed and incompetence ‒ during the colonial era, through the horrific war and most especially throughout the crony-capitalist kleptocracy…