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East of the Elbe is a new peer-reviewed, open access forum for the environmental history of: • East-Central Europe (Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary) • Central Europe (Austria, relevant regions of Germany) • Eastern Europe (Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Russia, western Russia) • Southeastern/Balkan Europe (Slovenia, Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, North Macedonia, and other former Yugoslav republics) • The Baltic region (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania). Comparative studies engaging multiple regions or connecting CEE to broader European/global environmental histories will also be welcomed.
Forest and water histories; river engineering and infrastructure • Histories of pollution, toxicity, environmental health, and discard studies • Waste management and consumption regimes • Environmentalism and environmental movements (grassroots and state-sponsored) • State socialism and environmental governance; centralised planning and ecological consequences • Technopolitics of nature; technological modernisation and environmental transformation • Agricultural and rural environmental change; collectivisation and land use • Industrial development, mining, and environmental impact • Urban environmental history, infrastructure, and ecosystems • Biodiversity, conservation, protected areas, and species histories • Environmental thought, ideology, and scientific knowledge production • Post-socialist environmental transitions and legacies • Gender and consumption history; everyday environmentalism • Comparative regional and transnational environmental history • Long-term socio-ecological dynamics and ecological footprint analysis.
All historical periods are welcome, from medieval to contemporary, with particular emphasis on the 18th–21st centuries and especially the socialist period (1945–1991) and its legacies.
The journal will publish both double blind peer reviewed papers and invited material. Special Issue proposals are welcome and should be directed to the Editors.
East of the Elbe is conceived as open access. For 2027, we are seeking to cover the journal's production costs without charging author fees through a Subscribe-to-Open offer combined with support from institutional founding sponsors, whose substantial contributions will be publicly recognised. Please contact James or Sarah at The White Horse Press to discuss these opportunities.
If our preferred funding model does not prove financially sustainable for the journal, APCs might apply after the launch period; in the event that APCs are introduced later, a waiver scheme will be available.
The journal will embed principles of inclusion and diversity, manifested in the editorial board, peer review policies and the goal of achieving sustainable Open access without fees to either readers or contributors. The White Horse Press is committed to the fair treatment of all authors, editors and reviewers, and particularly concerned to support Early Career Researchers. Our goal is to forge lasting relationships, based on mutual respect. East of the Elbe adheres to the publication standards and ethics shared by all White Horse Press publications. The submission process will request multi-authored papers to attach a statement of how the work was divided between the authors and how the order of authors has been decided. It is important to foster communication between academic communities in different regions and working in different languages. The journal will welcome contributions first published in languages other than English and WHP will offer support in honing the English.
Founding Editors:
Stephen Brain Mississippi State University
Viktor Pál University of Ostrava
ISSN pending (Online, OPEN ACCESS)
Social media details pending.
ONLINE ARCHIVING will include:
TOP BANNER Fortepan [id 84390] / Morvay Lajos (1965); BOTTOM BANNER Fortepan [id 263390] / Kovács Györgyi (1954)
