Environmental History scholarly journal

The history of the human environment or environmental history is a subdiscipline of history, close to historical biogeography. In scientific circles we talk about ecology as retrospective. The environmental history studies the history of relations between human societies, nature and the biophysical environment. Specifically, these studies focus on ideas developed, to the knowledge of nature and understanding of interdependencies and interactions between human societies and habitat. This field theory emerges in the early 1970s in conjunction with the rise of environmental movements and the new concerns of the human environment.

About the journal

The Environmental History scholarly journal was and still is the leading and most popular journal among practitioners, scientists and scholars all over the world. Tackling subjects like the past interactions between the environment and the ancient human cultures, it is a highly rated interdisciplinary quarterly publication, as the articles the journal publishes includes information on every single part of the world, covering all the aspects of the history of the human environment as well as any related disciplines, even though it is based in North America. The Environmental History scholarly journal is co-published by the American Society for Environmental History and the Forest History Society. Other than the regular research articles, reviews of prominent books, research reports as well the interviews of practitioners having a great impact on the field are also published by the journal regularly.

Subdiciplines’ journals

A large number of journals, other than the Environmental History scholarly journal, arose recently and mostly tackle the environmental history’s subsdiciplines. Some are even periodical publications are also devoted to specific areas of the science of Environmental History, such as marine history or forest history.

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