EDITORIAL
Editorial Leona Watson, Tyson Luneau

SNAPSHOTS
The Great Plains as a Bioregional Warzone Blake Johnson

Soybeans, Combines and Agricultural ‘Industrialisation’ in Benton County, Indiana (and well beyond), 1920–1945 J. Jacob Jones

RESEARCH ARTICLES
Meat, Livestock and the Colonial Project in 1830s and 1840s Australia: The Frontier, the City and the Colonial Imagination Nicholas Pitt

A River Runs through It: Disaster Mobilities of an Elbe Island Felix Mauch

Seasonal Migrants and Traditional Ecological Knowledge in a Region of Risk: The Pulse Seine Fisheries in Limfjorden, Denmark, c.1740–1860 Bo Poulsen, Camilla Andersen

Tools, Troops or Escapees? Cattle Trafficking in the Early Years of the Colony of New South Wales, Australia Fiona Probyn-Rapsey, Lynette Russell

‘How About the Threatened Timber Famine’: Timber Merchants, Wood Shortage and Global Surveys on Timber Production and Consumption Stéphane Castonguay

BOOK REVIEWS
Yaroslav Golubinov, Yuliya Zherdeva, Aleksandra Likhacheva and Oksana Nagornaya, Chelovek Protiv Okruzhayushchei Sredy: Landshafty Velikoi Voiny v Vostochnoi Evrope [Mankind against the Environment: Landscapes of the Great War in Eastern Europe] Andrei Vinogradov

Karen R. Jones, Beastly Britain: An Animal History Lee Raye

Coll Thrush, Wrecked: Unsettling Histories from the Graveyard of the Pacific Sabrina Schettino

SOCIETY PAGES
ESEH Notepad – The 2025 ESEH Conference in Uppsala Anneli Ekblom

EDITORIAL
Editorial Leona Watson, Tyson Luneau

SNAPSHOTS
Elephants under Empire: British Colonialism and the Taming of South India’s Forests Nandini S

Water Against Empire: Thinking From the Bengal Delta Jahidul Islam

RESEARCH ARTICLES
Making Tourism Sustainable? Environment and Resort Tourism in Negril, Jamaica, 1970s–2002 Henrice Altink

Agency under German Occupation: Conservationist Policy-Making in The Netherlands, 1940–1945 Kristian Mennen

Political Acceptance of Dangerous Technology: The Example of Leaded Petrol through the Case Study of Switzerland (1921–1970) Tiphaine Robert

Bad Weather and State-Building: Effective Urban Water Management during a Drought in Colonial Hong Kong, 1963–1964 David Clayton, Florence Mok

The ‘Mystery’ of Lop Nor: Empire, Geographical ‘Problems’ and Climate Change on the Silk Roads Lachlan Fleetwood

BOOK REVIEWS
Zozan Pehlivan, The Political Ecology of Violence: Peasants and Pastoralists in the Last Ottoman Century Erdal Çiftçi

Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, More and More and More: An All-Consuming History of Energy Carolina Granado

Sugata Ray, Climate Change and the Art of Devotion: Geoaesthetics in the Land of Krishna, 1550–1850 Yi Shan, Biyu Wu

Jane Rowling, Environments of Identity – Agricultural Community, Work and Concepts of Local in Yorkshire, 1918–2018 Mark Riley

SOCIETY PAGES
ESEH Notepad – The 2025 Bristol–Bern Prize in Public Environmental History Chanelle Adams, Dagomar Degroot

Dam Scientists: The Limits of Scientific Knowledge and Environmentalism

INTRODUCTION
Science and Hydropolitics: An Ambivalent Relationship Sara Lorenzini

SNAPSHOTS
Lake Erie’s Toxic Algae and the Dismal History of the Black Swamp Eliot Fackler

Crisis Materials and Local Resilience: Environmental Determinants of Building Practices in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century Rural Poland Robert Piotrowski

RESEARCH ARTICLES
Negotiating Resettlements: How Social Science Experts Shaped Dam Construction and the Displacement of Alpine Communities in Switzerland and Italy, 1940–1970 Sebastian De Pretto

Communist Bulgaria and the Exploitation of Hydropower on the Lower Danube (1957–1989): An Enviro-Technical Approach Francesco Magno

The Quest for Environmental Knowledge: Biologists, Dam-Building and Environmentalism in the Brazilian Amazon Frederik Schulze

Science-Based ‘Greenwashing’ of Large Dams in Ethiopia: The Case of the Gibe III Dam Sara De Simone

Interpreting Rivers for Dams: Engineering Education, Economisation, Knowledge Creation and Indian Hydro-Engineers 1860–1960 Ramya Swayamprakash

The Contradictions of Dam Building in the People’s Republic of China Arunabh Ghosh, Covell Meyskens

BOOK REVIEWS
Giulio Boccaletti, Water: A Biography Marianne Kjellén

Richard Bussmann, The Archaeology of Pharaonic Egypt: Society and Culture, 2700–1700 BC Zhilin Li, Ying Wang

Mahua Sarkar, The Gasping City: An Environmental History of Calcutta, 1817–1913 Suvanakar Dey

SOCIETY PAGES
ESEH Notepad – The ESEH–Gale Non-Residential Fellowship in Digital Environmental History Wilko Graf Von Hardenberg

EDITORIAL
Editorial David Moon, Leona Watson, Tyson Luneau

SNAPSHOTS
The Plastic Bag: From a Mundane Swedish Innovation to the World’s Oceans Nils Johansson

Onondaga Lake in New York State: Seventeenth Century Origins of a Superfund Site Holly A. Rine

RESEARCH ARTICLES
A British Military Engineer, the Ganga and the Spectre of Control in Colonial Northern India (1839–1854) Rahul Ranjan

Invisible Mountains? The Eastern and Southern Carpathians and their Environmental History (Fourteenth–Seventeenth Centuries) Kata Tóth

‘The Beauty of Our Hills Is Being Sacrificed’: Afforestation, Forestry and Colonial Environmentalism in British Hong Kong Vincent Ho, Novem Tsz Wing Ho

Science, Law and the Raj: Cultural Fields of Fish(y) Fact Aarthi Sridhar

Equality Drowned in Thermal Water – Environmental Racism and Antisemitism in the Context of Tourism-Centred Modernisation in Interwar North-East Hungary Gergely Kunt

BOOK REVIEWS
Richard C. Hoffmann, The Catch: An Environmental History of European Fisheries Daria Ageeva

Marcy Norton, The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals after 1492 Jim van der Meulen

Olive Heffernan, The High Seas: Greed, Power and the Battle for the Unclaimed Ocean and Corey Ross, Liquid Empire: Water and Power in the Colonial World Ailish Lalor

SOCIETY PAGES
ESEH Notepad – A Community in Exchange: A Note from The President Wilko Graf Von Hardenberg