We’ve published ‘Global Environment’ issue 19.3, #openaccess here: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/whpge/cu... #envhist #envhum @globalenvironment.bsky.social
The White Horse Press
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Independent family-run scholarly press publishing books and journals on environment and society
Our NEW JOURNAL 'East of the Elbe: Environment and Society in Central and Eastern Europe' is now OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS! Check out the journal site for scope and aims, a call for papers, and more information: www.whp-journals.co.uk/EE/index #envhist #envhum #S2O #subscribetoopen #openaccess
We’ve published ‘Nomadic Peoples’ issue 30.2, a special issue on Pastoralists and COVID-19 (guest edited by Angela Kronenburg García, Joana Roque De Pinho and Annemiek Pas Schrijver); #openaccess here: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/whpnp/cu... #pastoralism
New AOP open-access article! In 'An Interspecies Contact Zone', Benoit Henriet analyses the complex interactions between insectile hazards and segregated human communities in colonial Burundi during the Interwar period. liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/... #envhist #history
We’ve published a new item ahead of print in ‘The Journal of Population and Sustainability’, being a review by Barry Edmonston on Aalok Chaurasia’s book 'Population and Human Development in Districts of India’; #openaccess here: doi.org/10.3197/whpj...
Aalok Ranjan Chaurasia, 'Population and Human Development in Districts of India' | The Journal of Population and Sustainability
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We're delighted to announce an OPEN CALL FOR PAPERS for our brand new journal, 'East of the Elbe: Environment and Society in Central and Eastern Europe'. More info attached, and on the new submissions site (www.whp-journals.co.uk/EE/index). Submissions will open on 15th September. #envhist #envhum
All our publications are now available via Research4Life. R4L “provides institutions in low-and middle-income countries with online access to academic and professional peer-reviewed content [aiming] to improve teaching, research and policymaking….” www.research4life.org @r4lpartnership.bsky.social
We've added a new post to our blog, by Blake Johnson on 'The Great Plains as A Bioregional Warzone'; first published as a Snapshot in 'Environment and History'. Online here: whitehorsepress.blog/2026/08/12/g... @eandhwhp.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #greatplains
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We're pleased to share the contents of a forthcoming special collection 'Waste Ethnographies', in 'Worldwide Waste' journal. The articles will be published soon, in 2026. #envhum #enthnography #waste
We've added a new post to our blog, by Blake Johnson on 'The Great Plains as A Bioregional Warzone'; first published as a Snapshot in 'Environment and History'. Online here: whitehorsepress.blog/2026/08/12/g... @eandhwhp.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #greatplains
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We've published a new online first article in 'Plant Perspectives', by Sanja Puljar D'Alessio on 'Arboreal Political Bodies: From Liberty Trees to the European Tree of the Year'; #openaccess here: www.doi.org/10.3197/whpp... #envhum #plantstudies
We've added a new post to our blog, republishing an essay from the latest issue of 'The Journal of Population and Sustainability' in which a collective of high-profile scholars argues against pronatalism. #population #pronatalism #envhum #planetaryhealth whitehorsepress.blog/2026/07/31/p...
Why pronatalism fails the planetary health test
This blog republishes an essay from the latest issue of The Journal of Population and Sustainability in which a collective of high-profile scholars argues against pronatalism. The authors are Célin…
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We've added a new post to our blog, by J. Jacob Jones on "Soybeans, Combines and Agricultural ‘Industrialisation’ in Benton County, Indiana (and well beyond), 1920–1945"; here: whitehorsepress.blog/2026/08/06/s... #envhist #envhum #soybeans
Soybeans, Combines and Agricultural ‘Industrialisation’ in Benton County, Indiana (and well beyond), 1920–1945
In this blog, originally polished as a ‘Snapshot’ in Environment and History (May 2026), J. Jacob Jones traces the small beginnings of the soybean agro-industry and the profound change …
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We've published a new online first article in 'Plant Perspectives', by Sanja Puljar D'Alessio on 'Arboreal Political Bodies: From Liberty Trees to the European Tree of the Year'; #openaccess here: www.doi.org/10.3197/whpp... #envhum #plantstudies
We've published a new article ahead of print in 'Nomadic Peoples', by Dejene Debsu: 'Has Mobility Increased over Time? Pastoral Movement and Rangeland Management Practices in Chifra Woreda of the Afar Region, Northeast Ethiopia'; #openaccess here: www.doi.org/10.3828/whpn... #pastoralism #Ethiopia
HAS MOBILITY INCREASED OVER TIME? PASTORAL MOVEMENT AND RANGELAND MANAGEMENT PRACTICES IN CHIFRA WOREDA OF THE AFAR REGION, NORTHEAST ETHIOPIA | Nomadic Peoples
This study was conducted in 2015 and 2023 for three months in Chifra woreda of the Afar National Regional State (ANRS). The results of the study show that pastoralists were less mobile prior to the early periods of the derg government and depended on ...
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Issue 10.2 of ‘The Journal of Population and Sustainability’ is now live online; #openaccess here: www.whp-journals.co.uk/JPS/index #envhum #population
We've added a new post to our blog, republishing an essay from the latest issue of 'The Journal of Population and Sustainability' in which a collective of high-profile scholars argues against pronatalism. #population #pronatalism #envhum #planetaryhealth whitehorsepress.blog/2026/07/31/p...
Why pronatalism fails the planetary health test
This blog republishes an essay from the latest issue of The Journal of Population and Sustainability in which a collective of high-profile scholars argues against pronatalism. The authors are Célin…
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We've published a new article ahead of print in 'Nomadic Peoples', by Dejene Debsu: 'Has Mobility Increased over Time? Pastoral Movement and Rangeland Management Practices in Chifra Woreda of the Afar Region, Northeast Ethiopia'; #openaccess here: www.doi.org/10.3828/whpn... #pastoralism #Ethiopia
HAS MOBILITY INCREASED OVER TIME? PASTORAL MOVEMENT AND RANGELAND MANAGEMENT PRACTICES IN CHIFRA WOREDA OF THE AFAR REGION, NORTHEAST ETHIOPIA | Nomadic Peoples
This study was conducted in 2015 and 2023 for three months in Chifra woreda of the Afar National Regional State (ANRS). The results of the study show that pastoralists were less mobile prior to the early periods of the derg government and depended on ...
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We've added a new post to our blog, in which Isis Brook reports on the exhibition ‘In Bloom: how plants changed our world‘, at Oxford’s Ashmolean museum (until 16th August). Here: whitehorsepress.blog/2026/06/24/a... @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social #envhist #plantstudies @plantperspectives.bsky.social
Exhibition review: ‘In Bloom: how plants changed our world’
In this blog Isis Brook, deputy editor of Plant Perspectives, reports on the exhibition ‘In Bloom: how plants changed our world’, at Oxford’s Ashmolean museum (until 16 August). I…
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We've published a new article ahead of print in 'Nomadic Peoples', by Dominic van Asseldonk: "Constructing Cohesion, Countering Conflict. Pastoralist Foodways in Moroto District, Karamoja". Read it #openaccess here: www.doi.org/10.3828/whpn... #pastoralism #uganda
CONSTRUCTING COHESION, COUNTERING CONFLICT. PASTORALIST FOODWAYS IN MOROTO DISTRICT, KARAMOJA | Nomadic Peoples
Journal articles, NGO reports and news media commonly set Karamoja and its pastoralist people in a scene of contestation and struggle: cattle-rustling-related violence, government policy and security issues putting pressure on the mobile nature of the ...
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We've added another new blog post that's part of Global Environment's series in partnership with ICEHO. Harrison Croft responds to the recent essay by Libby Robin in GE: whitehorsepress.blog/2026/06/12/i... #envhist @globalenvironment.bsky.social @iceho.bsky.social
Encounters with the Sublime: On Doing Environmental History Outside the Office
In this blog Harrison Croft dons his ‘stout pair of boots’ and takes environmental history out of the office’ in a second response to Libby Robin’s essay in Global …
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Our new webpage is live, for our brand new journal 'East of the Elbe: Environment and Society in Central and Eastern Europe', here: whpress.co.uk/EE.html. We'll be sharing more information soon, and opening for submissions a little later in the year. #envhist
We've added a new blog post by Margaret Cook - part of Global Environment's series in partnership with ICEHO. Margaret responds to a recent essay by Libby Robin in GE. whitehorsepress.blog/2026/06/09/i... @globalenvironment.bsky.social @iceho.bsky.social #envhist
An Environmental-History Pracademic: Starting to paddle in flooded waters
In this blog, the first of two responding to Libby Robin’s essay in Global Environment’s new ICEHO series ‘Building Environmental History Around the World’, Margaret Cook de…
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4 new AOP articles! In 'Unity in Diversity?', Patrick Kupper and Jana Piňosová examine the neglected history of Habsburg nature conservation in the larger context of early 20th century European conservation. doi.org/10.3828/whpe... #envhist #history
We're delighted to announce #openaccess publication today of John Foster's monograph 'Lifeworld: A Fresh Approach to Environmental Philosophy'. To access the book online or to order a print copy, you can find all the details here: www.whpress.co.uk/publications... #envhum #philosophy #ethics
There's a new post on our blog, by Milja van Tielhof on 'Amsterdam, a city with two water problems', introducing her recent #openaccess article in @eandhwhp.bsky.social. Read it here: whitehorsepress.blog/2026/06/01/a... #envhist #envhum #water
Amsterdam, a city with two water problems
In this blog Milja van Tielhof introduces the subjects covered in more detail in her just-published Open Access paper in Environment and History, ‘Building Cisterns to Buffer Water Scarcity. …
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Issue 10.2 of ‘The Journal of Population and Sustainability’ is now live online; #openaccess here: www.whp-journals.co.uk/JPS/index #envhum #population
Congratulations to Christof Mauch on his retirement – which last night in Tutzing provided context for a dramatic book launch: “The Lexicon of Mauch Studies” is now available on our site (and booksellers the world over; print only): www.whpress.co.uk/publications... #envhum #envhist #mauchstudies
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The latest issue of Environment and History (Vol. 32 No. 3) is live now! Subscribers can read here: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/whpeh/32... #envhist #history