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BOOKS<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

All of our new and forthcoming books, and some of our older ones, are Open Access and free for anyone to read<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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JOURNALS<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Open Access Journals<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Our newest journals, The Journal of Population and Sustainability<\/a><\/em>, Worldwide Waste<\/em><\/a> and Plant Perspectives<\/a><\/em>, are entirely Open Access.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two of our more established journals, Global Environment<\/em><\/a> and Nomadic Peoples<\/a><\/em>, are also now publishing on an Open Access basis via Subscribe to Open<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hybrid Journals<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Environmental Values<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

This title is now published on our behalf by SAGE. A number of articles in Environmental Values<\/em> are open access. These can now be found on SAGE’s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Environment and History<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The one remaining hybrid journal we publish ourselves, Environment and History<\/a><\/em>, 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<\/a>‘ page. Published Open Access articles are listed here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Flood Security in the Medieval and Early Modern North Sea Area: A Question of Entitlement?<\/a> Tim Soens<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Forced Solidarity: Maintenance of Coastal Defences Along the North Sea Coast in the Early Modern Period<\/a> Milja van Tielhof<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faire mieux que la nature? The History of Eel Restocking in Europe<\/a> Willem Dekker and Laurent Beaulaton<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Regional Planning in a Decentralised State: How Administrative Practices contributed to Consensus-Building in Sixteenth-Century Holland<\/a> Milja van Tielhof<\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘Public Interest’ as a Basis for Early Modern State-Society Interactions: Water Control Projects in Qing China, 1750-1850<\/a> Wenkai He<\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘The Lungs of the City’: Green Space, Public Health and Bodily Metaphor in the Landscape of Urban Park History<\/a> Karen R. Jones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Curiosity and Instruction: British and Irish Botanic Gardens and their Audiences, 1760-1800<\/a> Clare Hickman<\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘Living in a State of Filth and Indifference to \u2026 Their Health’: Weather, Public Health and Urban Governance in Colonial George Town, Penang<\/a> Fiona Williamson and Katrina Proust<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oceans and Landless Farms: Linking Southern and Northern Shadow Places of Industrial Livestock (1954-1975)<\/a> Floor Haalboom<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Birth of Hirudiculture: Parisian Medicine, Leech Farming and the Transformation of Marshland in Nineteenth-Century France<\/a> Robert G.W. Kirk, Neil Pemberton and Thibaut Serviant-Fine<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From Reintroduction to Rewilding: Autonomy, Agency and the Messy Liberation of the European Bison<\/a> Monica Vasile<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How Bogs Made for Borderlands: The Eastern Low Countries, c. 670 \u2013 c. 1900 CE<\/a> Maurice Paulissen, Roy van Beek and Edward H. Huijbens<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wild Smoke: Managing Forest Pollution in Northern British Columbia since 1950<\/a> Mica Jorgenson<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Living With Water and Flood in Medieval and Early Modern Hull<\/a> Briony Mcdonagh, Hannah Worthen, Stewart Mottram, and Stormm Buxton-Hill<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Agency under German Occupation: Conservationist Policy-Making in The Netherlands, 1940\u20131945<\/a> Kristian Mennen<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bad Weather and State-Building: Effective Urban Water Management during a Drought in Colonial Hong Kong, 1963\u20131964<\/a> David Clayton and Florence Mok<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Environmental Disasters and Place-Based Identity Formation: The Windstorm of 1870 and the 150-Year Czech Relationship with the Bohemian Forest<\/a> Karel Stibral, Veronika Faktorov\u00e1,and Michal Ho\u0159ej\u0161\u00ed<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Long Shadow of the Pines: Vegetation in the Birth, Destruction and Reconstruction of Madrid\u2019s University City (1927\u20131956)<\/a> Santiago Gorostiza, Alejandro P\u00e9rez-Olivares, Daniel Oviedo Silva, and Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda S\u00e1nchez Laforet<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 V\u00f5rtsj\u00e4rv<\/a> Kati Lindstr\u00f6m and Achim Kl\u00fcppelberg<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Multifunctional Landscapes in Central Mainland Portugal: The Royal Administration of Almeirim and Sustainable Land Use from the Fourteenth to the Sixteenth Century<\/a> Koldo Trapaga-Monchet and Ra\u00fal Romero-Calcerrada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Special Virtual Edition of Environment and History<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

In addition to these articles, \u2018Natures in Between<\/a>\u2019, a collection of 15 papers from the Environment and History<\/em> archives, produced for the 2017 ESEH Conference in Zagreb, is available to download at no cost from this page in both PDF format<\/a> (3.8 MB, suitable for laptops and ipads) and epub format<\/a> (1.9 MB, readable using ibooks and other mobile apps).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Free Online Articles<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Editorials<\/strong>, book reviews<\/strong> and Society Pages<\/strong> 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<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Book Reviews for Environment and History<\/a><\/em> are free to read on this website in advance of publication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Society Benefits<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Members of the European Society for Environmental History<\/a> can receive free PDFs of the latest issues of Environment and History<\/em>. Details available from the Society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY PORTAL<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

A number of our publications are open access or otherwise free to read on the Rachel Carson Center’s Environment and Society<\/a> portal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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