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Péter Szabó @pszaboenviro.bsky.social · 2d

Check out the newest #envhist journal!

Germinate @g-ehr.bsky.social · 7d

We are here!!

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Péter Szabó @pszaboenviro.bsky.social · 5d

no worries:)

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Rithma K. E. Larsen @rithma.bsky.social · 8d

I published my very first international scientific article in Environment and History! In it, I examine the contested history of the Ecological Indian trope and its entanglements with the genealogy of Indigenous knowledges, the topic of my PhD. Read an excerpt here:

#envhist

The Contested History of the Ecological Indian Trope: Politics of Knowledge in Conservation Science and Anthropology 1990–2000

In this blog to accompany her just-published article ‘The Contested History of the Ecological Indian Trope: Politics of Knowledge in Conservation Science and Anthropology 1990–2000’ in …

whitehorsepress.blog

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Péter Szabó @pszaboenviro.bsky.social · 8d

So what was your answer? What is at stake? This is on my mind a lot, so I'd be interested in what you and the students came up with.

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Katja Bruisch @kbruisch.bsky.social · 13d

📣 It's publication day! 🔥Burning Swamps🔥 is out with @universitypress.cambridge.org ! My book tells the forgotten history of peat in the context of Russia’s industrialization & electrification and points to the lingering presence of past extraction 1/5

#envhist #energysky

Book cover of "Burning Swamps: Peat and the Forgotten Margins of Russia's Fossil Economy" by Katja Bruisch. A black and white photograph shows a woman with a headscarf stacking peat

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Péter Szabó @pszaboenviro.bsky.social · 14d

It's a rare treat to see a medieval environmental history book, not to mention a great one. So, everybody, go get your copy and dig in! #envhist

Ellen Arnold @medievalpenguin.bsky.social · 14d

Incredibly proud of this recognition by my peers. Finalist for the biennial St. Andrew's book award from the ESEH and RCC, both communities that matter deeply to me.

ESEH – European Society for Environmental History @eseh.bsky.social · 15d

Shortlist:

Gabriela Jarzębowska, 𝘚𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘊𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘗𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘙𝘢𝘵 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘭

Joana Gaspar de Freitas, 𝘈 𝘎𝘭𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘭 𝘌𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘏𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘊𝘰𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘋𝘶𝘯𝘦𝘴

Ellen Arnold, 𝘔𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘷𝘢𝘭 𝘙𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘱𝘦𝘴: 𝘌𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘔𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘔𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘕𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘩𝘸𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘌𝘶𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘦, 𝘤𝘢. 300–1100
@medievalpenguin.bsky.social

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ICEHO @iceho.bsky.social · 17d

Consider sending some funds to this rad crew of #envhist scholars doing good work.

Environmental History Now @envhistnow.bsky.social · 18d

Love what we do? Want to help us celebrate? Chip in to our fundraiser ko-fi.com/envhistnow

Support Environmental History Now

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Péter Szabó @pszaboenviro.bsky.social · 19d

My presentation is unfortunately missing (due to technical reasons), but you can still catch me during the general discussion after Chelsey's presentation.

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Péter Szabó @pszaboenviro.bsky.social · 19d

Our recent paper in Nature Reviews Biodiversity
doi.org/10.1038/s443...
resulted from a wonderful workhop in Sevilla in 2023. You can now watch all the presentations from this workshop here:
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
#envhist #histecol

SOURCES 2023 - YouTube

www.youtube.com

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Péter Szabó @pszaboenviro.bsky.social · 19d

My presentation is unfortunately missing due to technical reasons, but you can still catch me during the general discussion after Chelsey's presentation.

Péter Szabó @pszaboenviro.bsky.social · 26d

Are you at the beginning of your career and interested in environmental history? This is the best way to get involved 👇

ESEH – European Society for Environmental History @eseh.bsky.social · 26d

Are you following our Early-Career-Scholar network, ESEH NextGate? They organize events and support young scholars. Follow here: @esehnextgate.bsky.social
#envhist #envhum

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Péter Szabó @pszaboenviro.bsky.social · Sep 8

Very glad to have been part of this! 👇

Laetitia Navarro @laenavarro.bsky.social · Sep 5

Fresh off the press! Our perspective in @natrevbiodiv.nature.com discusses the wealth of information on biodiversity contained in historical sources, and its integration for long-term ecological knowledge and biodiversity conservation. A thread on the paper and what led to it:
rdcu.be/eEcIt

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Péter Szabó @pszaboenviro.bsky.social · Jul 28

Although heavily Anglo-American in focus, there is a lot I can relate to concerning #envhist in this roundtable paper, especially the bits about interdisciplinary cooperation.

Alex Hibberts @hibbertsalex.bsky.social · Jul 28

I'm delighted that @royalhistsoc.org has published our roundtable article on 'The Future of (Environmental) History'.

This came out of a workshop in April 2023 with @northernenvhistory.bsky.social

I've summarised our paper (link to OA article) in a blog 👇

blog.royalhistsoc.org/2025/07/27/f...

Four Suggestions for the Future of (Environmental) History | Historical Transactions

blog.royalhistsoc.org

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Péter Szabó @pszaboenviro.bsky.social · Jul 18

Have a nice summer, everyone

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Miguel Clavero @chikichanka.bsky.social · Jul 16

My letter ‘‘Awkward wording. Rephrase’’: linguistic injustice in ecological journals, published in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social, has 100 citations in GS
I received dozens of messages from all over the world sharing linguistic injustice experiences. Nice sense of group
www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

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Péter Szabó @pszaboenviro.bsky.social · Jul 9

Hiking through Rychlebské hory (=Góry Złote, Reichensteiner Gebirge, you choose), I was suprised (and impressed) to find
that many (though by far not all) kilometres of the boundary between 🇵🇱 and 🇨🇿 are marked by a drystone wall. Will check the literature to find out more!

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ESEHNextGate @esehnextgate.bsky.social · Jun 30

Just completed this year's edition of our Writing Support Programme! Brilliant participants, papers & discussants✨️ Big thanks to all! @etnobioannavarga.bsky.social @sarahparkhouse.bsky.social @harrycroft.bsky.social @rubyekkel.bsky.social @yaronbalslev.bsky.social @lailaia2.bsky.social

#envhist

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Péter Szabó @pszaboenviro.bsky.social · Jun 17

Check out this great conference, so sorry I can't be there myself!

ESEH – European Society for Environmental History @eseh.bsky.social · Jun 17

🪵Forest of Numbers
📌University of Turin, 10–11 July 2025

More info: eseh.org/conference-f...

The conference aims at offering novel methodological insights into quantitative approaches to the economic history of forestry

#foresthist #envhist #EconomicHistory

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CONCRIS @concris.bsky.social · Jun 11

Yesterday we had a pleasant and fruitful workshop of like-minded researchers from three projects (INFEST, Vienna - CONCRIS, Brno - REFRESH, Ostrava) in Brno. Looking forward to further collaboration on 19th-century forests and forestry!
@maschmid.bsky.social @simonegingrich.bsky.social

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Péter Szabó @pszaboenviro.bsky.social · May 7

Started travel preparations for #eseh2025 in Uppsala! Always brings back memories of previous conferences. #envhist

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ESEH – European Society for Environmental History @eseh.bsky.social · May 5

📚New Book Series in #envhist edited by Stephen Brain & Viktor Pal (@viktorpal.bsky.social) is up and running!
Get in touch with the editors and share your book proposal.
More info 👇

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Péter Szabó @pszaboenviro.bsky.social · Apr 14

Where did ordinary building timber come from before 🚂 made transport cheap? In our new paper, we analyzed 1231 dendrodated constructions and coeval archival data to show that timber was most probably sourced locally. (But watch out for 🌲🌳 floating!) #envhist
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Local timber dominated pre-industrial construction: Insights from archival and dendrochronological data

In pre-modern Europe, timber was notoriously difficult and costly to transport on land, therefore it is usually assumed that ordinary buildings – exce…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Environmental History @envirohistory.bsky.social · Mar 25

Ahead of new print alert! You can now read @julianordblad.bsky.social's "The Nature of Planetary Habitability: A Conceptual History of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services" from the April 2025 issue. #envhist #envhum #biodiversity

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

The Nature of Planetary Habitability: A Conceptual History of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services | Environmental History

Abstract This essay traces the conceptual history of biodiversity and ecosystem services from the late 1970s to the early 2000s. In contrast to recent historical studies that have interpreted biodiver...

www.journals.uchicago.edu

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Péter Szabó @pszaboenviro.bsky.social · Mar 24

Excel will make you a hierarchical treemap chart, but the ones they used to have in the 19th century are so much cooler. Check this one out in the 1830 Statistical Yearbook of the Austrian Monarchy. Land-use in Küstenland.

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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · Mar 17

New 𝘈𝘳𝘤𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘢 article on the historical politicization of the invasive black locust (𝘙𝘰𝘣𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘢 𝘱𝘴𝘦𝘶𝘥𝘰𝘢𝘤𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘢) in Hungary. Read "Links between State Power and Tree Species: Black Locust in Central Europe" by Robert Balogh on the Environment & Society Portal! #envhist

Links between State Power and Tree Species: Black Locust in Central Europe

The historical politicization of the invasive black locust in Hungary.

www.environmentandsociety.org

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