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BOOKS
All of our new and forthcoming books, and some of our older one, are Open Access and free for anyone to read.
JOURNALS
Open Access Journals
Our newest journals, The Journal of Population and Sustainability, Worldwide Waste and Plant Perspectives, are entirely Open Access.
Two of our more established journals, Global Environment and Nomadic Peoples, are also now publishing on an Open Access basis via Subscribe to Open.
Hybrid Journals
Environmental Values
This title is now published on our behalf by SAGE. A number of articles in Environmental Values are open access. These can now be found on SAGE’s website.
Environment and History
The one remaining hybrid journal we publish ourselves, Environment and History, normally charges for access to research articles, but authors can pay to publish their articles as Open Access under a Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 Licence. This means they are free for anyone to read and copy, in perpetuity. For more details see our ‘For Authors‘ page. Published Open Access articles are listed here:
Forced Solidarity: Maintenance of Coastal Defences Along the North Sea Coast in the Early Modern Period Milja van Tielhof
Faire mieux que la nature? The History of Eel Restocking in Europe Willem Dekker and Laurent Beaulaton
Regional Planning in a Decentralised State: How Administrative Practices contributed to Consensus-Building in Sixteenth-Century Holland Milja van Tielhof
‘The Lungs of the City’: Green Space, Public Health and Bodily Metaphor in the Landscape of Urban Park History Karen R. Jones
Curiosity and Instruction: British and Irish Botanic Gardens and their Audiences, 1760-1800 Clare Hickman
‘Living in a State of Filth and Indifference to … Their Health’: Weather, Public Health and Urban Governance in Colonial George Town, Penang Fiona Williamson and Katrina Proust
Oceans and Landless Farms: Linking Southern and Northern Shadow Places of Industrial Livestock (1954-1975) Floor Haalboom
The Birth of Hirudiculture: Parisian Medicine, Leech Farming and the Transformation of Marshland in Nineteenth-Century France Robert G.W. Kirk, Neil Pemberton and Thibaut Serviant-Fine
From Reintroduction to Rewilding: Autonomy, Agency and the Messy Liberation of the European Bison Monica Vasile
How Bogs Made for Borderlands: The Eastern Low Countries, c. 670 – c. 1900 CE Maurice Paulissen, Roy van Beek and Edward H. Huijbens
Wild Smoke: Managing Forest Pollution in Northern British Columbia since 1950 Mica Jorgenson
Living With Water and Flood in Medieval and Early Modern Hull Briony Mcdonagh, Hannah Worthen, Stewart Mottram, and Stormm Buxton-Hill
Agency under German Occupation: Conservationist Policy-Making in The Netherlands, 1940–1945 Kristian Mennen
Bad Weather and State-Building: Effective Urban Water Management during a Drought in Colonial Hong Kong, 1963–1964 David Clayton and Florence Mok
Environmental Disasters and Place-Based Identity Formation: The Windstorm of 1870 and the 150-Year Czech Relationship with the Bohemian Forest Karel Stibral, Veronika Faktorová,and Michal Hořejší
The Long Shadow of the Pines: Vegetation in the Birth, Destruction and Reconstruction of Madrid’s University City (1927–1956) Santiago Gorostiza, Alejandro Pérez-Olivares, Daniel Oviedo Silva, and José María Sánchez Laforet
A Fishy Tale of the Nuclear Power Plant Never Built in Estonia: An Envirotechnical History of Energy, Fish, Land and Water Resources Planning at Lake Võrtsjärv Kati Lindström and Achim Klüppelberg
Special Virtual Edition of Environment and History
In addition to these articles, ‘Natures in Between’, a collection of 15 papers from the Environment and History archives, produced for the 2017 ESEH Conference in Zagreb, is available to download at no cost from this page in both PDF format (3.8 MB, suitable for laptops and ipads) and epub format (1.9 MB, readable using ibooks and other mobile apps).
Free Online Articles
Editorials, book reviews and Society Pages in our subscription journal backsets are free to read even in volumes where research articles remain gated (though we do retain copyright and re-use requires our permission). You may find this sort of material by browsing back issues hosted on our LUP site.
Book Reviews for Environment and History are free to read on this website in advance of publication.
Society Benefits
Members of the European Society for Environmental History can receive free PDFs of the latest issues of Environment and History. Details available from the Society.
ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY PORTAL
A number of our publications are open access or otherwise free to read on the Rachel Carson Center’s Environment and Society portal.