Environmental Science and History

Environmental Science and History

Tracing the impacts of human activity on the natural world!

Environmental Science and History will create opportunities for new insights into the natural world, the ways anthropogenic activity has impacted climates, biodiversity, and ecological balances, and will describe early efforts to understand and mitigate or remediate the negative effects of human activities on the natural world.

Plant illustration Exacum Forbesii
Plant illustration - Exacum Forbesii. Henry O. Forbes, RGS Images Online, 01/01/1903.

The complete Environmental Science & History collection is now available!

The content in this archive will support tracing the impacts of human activity on the natural world and enable these impacts to be researched and analyzed through documents, images, data, maps, and photographs.

The collections will primarily come from new digitization that will complement existing open or commercial resources and will complement the data, documents, and themes present in the existing Wiley Digital Archives from the Royal Geographical Society, Royal Anthropological Institute, New York Academy of Sciences, British Association for the Advancement of Science, and Royal College of Physicians.

Forest on a riverbank
Forest on a riverbank. J. B. Noel, RGS Images Online, n.d.

Subjects

  • Ecology
  • Botany
  • Biodiversity
  • Deforestation
  • Agriculture
  • Livestock
  • Fisheries
  • Water Sources
  • Irrigation
  • Wetlands
  • Hydrology
  • Climate Change

Primary Source Materials

  • Administrative records
  • Press clippings
  • Correspondence
  • Illustrations
  • Gray Literature
  • Field Notes and Data
  • Manuscripts
  • Photographs
  • Maps
  • Blueprints
  • Pamphlets
  • Personal Papers

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    Lancaster University

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    Tommy Flynn

    RN, CPNP-AC | Ph.D. Candidate, Nursing

    Emory University

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    Dr. Catherine Nichols

    Department of Anthropology and Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities

    Loyola University Chicago

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    Mobeen Hussain

    co-Editor in Chief--Doing History in Public

    PhD Candidate, World History--University of Cambridge

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    University of Glasgow

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    Sarah M. Pickman

    Ph.D. Candidate—History of Science and Medicine Program

    Yale University

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    Jacopo Baron

    PhD Candidate Doctoral School of Social Anthropology and Ethnology

    EHESS of Paris

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    Center for Research Libraries

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