EDITORIAL
Editorial Leona Watson, Tyson Luneau

SNAPSHOTS
Horse Disease and Flooded Ground: Oxen as Mounts in the Gran Chaco at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Antoine Rousseau

From Pearls to Pata E’ Cabra (Arca zebra): Bivalve Banks and the Political Ecology of Collapse in the Venezuelan Caribbean Fidel Rodríguez Velásquez, Oliver Antczak

RESEARCH ARTICLES
(Re)Making Svalbard’s Marble Island: Marketing the Sublime and Mythologising the More-Than-Human Alexis Rider

The Sound of Paris: An Environmental History of Noise in the City of Light Caroline Ford

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, Michal Hořejší

From Zibil to Mezbele: Social Order, Garbage and Officials in Early Modern Ottoman Bursa Nilüfer Alkan Günay, Firat Yaşa

‘The Enchanted Dollar Bill’: The Environmental History of Socialist Tourism in Hungary and Yugoslavia Viktor Pál, Josef M. Djordjevski

Eradicating Waste in the Making of the Lower River Murray, Australia, 1880–1940 Margaret Cook, Sue Jackson

BOOK REVIEWS
Sandeep Vaheesan, Democracy in Power: A History of Electrification in the United States Huixin Huo

Anna Mazanik, Sanitizing Moscow: Waste, Animals, and Urban Health in Late Imperial Russia David Moon

Xiangli Ding, Hydropower Nation: Dams, Energy, and Political Changes in Twentieth-Century China Huixin Huo

E.C.H. Keskitalo (ed.), Understanding Human-Nature Practices for Environmental Management: Examples from Northern Europe Shiyuan Shi, Biyu Wu

SOCIETY PAGES
ESEH Notepad – NEXTGATe Evolves: Toward Craft and Creativity ESEH NEXTGATe

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