Visions of Sustainability

EDITORIAL
Visions of Sustainability: An Introduction Laura Meneghello

RESEARCH ARTICLES
Flood Prevention and Maximised Wood Production at the Same Time: Sustainable Forestry in the Swiss Nineteenth Century Martin Stuber

Through Infrastructure: Pneumatic Transport and the Continuity of the Technical Fix from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-first Century Laura Meneghello

Produced by Sun, Wind or Water: Visions of Renewable Energy in the West German Electricity Industry’s Advertising During the 1980s Lisanne Rother

Visions of Sustainable Future Shaped Through a Dilemma: International Tourism Development and Lagoon Management in Bacalar Eriko Yamasaki, Laura Meneghello

CONVERSATION
Transdisciplinary Histories and the Rise of the Environmental Humanities Libby Robin, Amanda Wells, Claudia Leal, Joana Baço, Cristina Brito, Patricia Carvalho, Susanna Lidström, Tirza Meyer, Ursula Münster, Kate Rigby, Sandra Swart, Nina Vieira

INTERVIEW
Between History and Cultural Representations. A Different Reading of American Environmental History: An interview with Christof Mauch Alessandro Agosta

BOOK REVIEWS
John Dargavel, Anthropocene Days Judit Farkas

Giacomo Bonan and Katia Occhi (eds), Environment and Infrastructure. Challenges, Knowledge and Innovation from the Early Modern Period to the Present Sebastian De Pretto

NOTES FROM THE ICEHOUSE
In a Northern Sandbox: A World Congress in Finland Claire E. Campbell, Roger Norum, Graeme Wynn

EDITORIAL
Global Environment’s Eighteenth Birthday Gabriella Corona

RESEARCH ARTICLES
Long-Term Elasticity of Environmental Demand: Environmental Protection Expenditures in Sweden, 1972–2020 Magnus Lindmark, Sevil Acar

Agriculture, Forests and Individuals: The Environmental Conflict in Costa Rica, 1880–2021 Edgar Eduardo Blanco Obando

The History of Water as an Economic or Social Good in Post-Colonial Botswana, 1966–2020 Mark Nyandoro

The State, Climate Change and Energy Transition in Zimbabwe, 1992–2022 Eric Kushinga Makombe, Nelson Chanza

Africa and the Cattle Without History Tad Brown

Political Regimes and Climate Change: Learning from Past Civilisations Brian Grodsky

BOOK REVIEWS
Milica Prokić and Pavla Šimková (eds), Entire of Itself? Towards an Environmental History of Islands Peter Coates

Alan G. Johnson, India’s Forests, Real and Imagined: Writing the Modern Nation Priyanka Guha Roy

NOTES FROM THE ICEHOUSE
Notes from the Icehouse – Environmental History’s Usable Past: On Reviving the Scholarship of Synthesis Jonatan Palmblad

Silent Springs. Global Histories of Pesticides and our Toxic World(s)

EDITORIAL
Introduction: Silent Springs. Global Histories of Pesticides and our Toxic World(s) Marin Coudreau, Céline Pessis

RESEARCH ARTICLES
Soviet Plans, Capitalist Chemistry: Khimizatsiya and the Western Pesticide Companies in the Age of Poisons Marin Coudreau

Arsenic to the Rescue of European Potatoes: The Institutionalisation of Plant Protection in France and Germany (1920s–1950s) Margot Lyautey

Dumping in the Global Dixie: Circle of Poison and the Contamination of the Global South Amy M. Hay

Tales Behind a Spice: Toxified Terrain and Tortured Bodies in the Making of Indian Small Cardamom Anu Krishna

Tailor-Made Pesticides. Understanding the Pesticides Market in a Productive Agricultural Region of the Cambodian Mekong Delta Eve Bureau-Point, Jean-Philippe Venot, Sreytouch Heourn

Safer than in the USA? The Reception of Silent Spring in France and the Difficulties in Achieving European Regulations on Pesticides, 1962–1976 Bleuen Merrer, François Dedieu, Céline Pessis, Christophe Bonneuil

Stop Experimenting on Us! Judicial Stories of Pesticide Resistance in Argentina María Valeria Berros

SPECIAL ARTICLES
Glyphosate Bonding (2020) Eun Sun Cho

‘Field Pieces’ (‘Ackerstücke’) and ‘Transects’ (‘Transekte’). Two Photographic Attempts to Capture Biodiversity in Agricultural Crop Land Thilo Mokros

NOTES FROM THE ICEHOUSE
Facing Environmental Denialism: Lessons from the Bolsonaro Nightmare José Augusto Pádua