"National Park Science – A Century of Research in South Africa", by Jane Carruthers (University of South Africa, Pretoria)
South Africa is renowned for its wildlife and environmental conservation in iconic national parks such as the Kruger, one of the world's first formal protected areas. However, this is the first book to thoroughly analyse and explain the interesting and changing scientific research that has been accomplished in South Africa's…
"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…
An Analysis of the Royal Preserves in Portugal: Issues of Privilege, Power, Management and Conflict
This book looks at the functioning and symbolic meanings of the royal preserves, parks, and forests in a transitional period in Portuguese political regimes: at the end of the Ancien Regime and in the aftermath of the first liberal revolution in Portugal (1821), from 1777 to 1824.The aim is to…
Atas do I Encontro Internacional de História Ambiental Lusófona
A presente publicação é a memória escrita do “Encontro Internacional de História Ambiental Lusófona”, realizado em Coimbra, a 30 e 31 de março de 2012, contada a partir das comunicações aí apresentadas; um encontro que permitiu um primeiro contacto entre estudiosos/as de história ambiental de língua portuguesa e que contribuiu…
Between the Atlantic and the Mediterranean: responses to climate and weather conditions throughout History
Between the Atlantic and the Mediterranean brings together a set of case studies on living organisms’ adaptation to the evolution of the climate and adjustments to extreme weather conditions. Aiming to go beyond concerns about recent and forthcoming climate change, which have dominated research in environmental studies this book adopts…
Climatic extremes in Portugal in the 1780s
ABSTRACT: The final stage of the Little Ice Age in Europe was characterised by strong climatic variability. New documentary sources containing information referring to weather and climate are used in this study to reconstruct and to describe climate conditions in Portugal during the 18th century, mainly in the 1780s. Indexation…
Contra cheias e tempestades: consciência do território, debate parlamentar e políticas de águas e de florestas em Portugal (1852-1886)
É objectivo deste trabalho discutir a génese das políticas de águas e de florestas em Portugal na segunda metade do século XIX. Pretende-se demonstrar que a construção do objecto político de ordenamento de águas e de florestas para a globalidade do território nacional, bem como as políticas de per se…
Early portuguese meteorological measurements (18th century)
Natural proxies, documentary evidence and instrumental data are the only sources used to reconstruct past climates. In this paper, we present the 18th century meteorologists (either Portuguese or foreigners) who made the first observations at several sites in Continental Portugal, Madeira Island and Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), from 1749 until…