International Review of Environmental History

International Review of Environmental History takes an interdisciplinary and global approach to environmental history. It publishes on all thematic and geographical topics of environmental history, but especially encourages articles with perspectives focused on or developed from the southern hemisphere and the ‘Global South’. This includes but is not limited to Australasia, East and South East Asia, Africa and South America.

International Review of Environmental History’s editorial board includes historians, scientists and geographers, as well as scholars from other backgrounds, who work on environmental history and related disciplines, such as ecology, garden history and landscape studies. The methodological breadth of International Review of Environmental History distinguishes it from other environmental history journals, as does its attempt to draw together cognate research areas in garden history and landscape studies.

The journal’s goal is to be read across disciplines, not just within history. We encourage scholars to think big and to tackle the challenges of writing environmental histories across different methodologies, nations and timescales. We embrace interdisciplinary, comparative and transnational methods, while still recognising the importance of locality in understanding these global processes.

International Review of Environmental History is happy to consider future special issues focusing on themes drawn from conferences or collaborations.

Ownership and management

The journal was created and developed by James Beattie. An anonymous donor provides funding to the journal for an editorial assistant. The Centre for Environmental History at The Australian National University sponsors the journal, and ANU Press publishes a free electronic version and a print-on-demand hard copy of the journal. It is also supported by the Environmental Research Institute of the University of Waikato, New Zealand: www.waikato.ac.nz/eri. Our open-access policy means that articles will be available free to scholars around the world, ensuring high citation rates and impact in and beyond the field of history. The journal is listed on Directory of Open Access Journals, ProQuest, InformIT, NLA National edeposit (accessed through Trove), ANU Open Research digital repository, EBSCO and Scopus.

Publishing schedule

International Review of Environmental History is published twice a year, in April and November. Special issues may also be published either within or outside the normal publication schedule of the journal.

Access

Fully open-access electronic publication with a print-on-demand paperback copy option.

Copyright and licensing

All issues published from Volume 4(1) onwards are published under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Issues published previous to this are under a standard copyright licence. Authors retain copyright of articles published in this journal.

Revenue sources

An anonymous donor provides funding to the journal for an editorial assistant.

Author fees

There are no fees charged to authors for publishing work in the International Review of Environmental History. Authors are, however, expected to pay where required any fees arising from using copyright works within their articles.

Peer review process

All articles submitted to this journal undergo a double-blind peer-review process. The peer-review process is arranged by the Journal Editor, who then decides upon publication, amendment or rejection. Manuscripts that undergo amendment may be subject to further review by the Journal Editor or an external reviewer.

Process for identification of and dealing with allegations of research misconduct

If the Journal Editor receives a credible allegation of misconduct by an author, reviewer, or editor, then they have a duty to investigate the matter with ANU Press, in consultation with relevant Associate Editors and members of the Editorial Board. If the claim is substantiated, the Editor will follow the guidelines set out by COPE for retracting the article in question.

If the Journal Editor receives convincing evidence that the main substance or conclusions of an article published in the journal are incorrect, then, in consultation with the journal’s Associate Editors and/or Editorial Board and ANU Press, the Journal Editor will ensure the publication of an appropriate notice of correction.

Publication ethics

International Review of Environmental History (IREH) follows the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and its Best Practice Guidelines. Authors, editors and reviewers should familiarise themselves with these guidelines.

Duties/responsibilities of authors

Authors are responsible for providing:

original submissions of articles, fully referenced according to the journal’s guidelines, which follow Chicago style with Australian spelling. For more details on Chicago style, please see: www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html (incorrect referencing will mean that articles may not be considered for publication)
payment for all costs and copyright permissions of all images
filling out journal copyright and author’s declaration forms, which will be provided to authors once an article is accepted for publication
acknowledgement of any material that has been previously published
acknowledging any external research grants/conflicts of interest.

Duties/responsibilities of editors

The Editor of International Review of Environmental History may reject a submitted manuscript without formal peer review if he/she considers it to be inappropriate for the journal and outside its scope.
The Editor reserves the right to have final decisions on the content of all journal issues.
The Editor keeps the peer-review process confidential.
The Editor will make all reasonable effort to process submissions on time.
The Editor will delegate the peer review of any original self-authored research article to a member of the editorial or advisory board as appropriate.

Duties/responsibilities of reviewers

Reviewers are responsible for ensuring:

timely production of reviews
fair and unbiased assessment
they follow the guidelines for review document of the journal, which will be provided to the reviewer once they accept the position.

In addition, reviewers will keep in mind the following guidelines for the review: https://publicationethics.org/files/Ethical_Guidelines_For_Peer_Reviewers_2.pdf

Submission

Author(s) submitting an original manuscript to IREH must present unpublished work that is not under consideration elsewhere. Plagiarism, including duplicate publication of the author's own work, in whole or in part without proper citation is not accepted by the journal. IREH may check manuscripts submitted to the journal for originality using anti-plagiarism software.

Authors must be aware of, and comply with, best practice in publication ethics including, but not limited to, plagiarism, manipulation of figures, declaration of competing interests and compliance with policies on research ethics.
Reviewers and editors are required to treat manuscripts fairly and in confidence, and to declare any competing interests.

Plagiarism

International Review of Environmental History (IREH) will not accept plagiarised articles. Plagiarism is ‘the process or practice of using another person's ideas or work and pretending that it is your own’ (Cambridge Dictionary).

Plagiarism includes, but is not limited to:

Copying or downloading figures, photographs, pictures or diagrams without acknowledgement of sources.
Directly copying text from other sources without attribution, including text downloaded from the internet.
Using an idea from another source with slightly modified language without attribution.
Copying ideas, images or data from other sources without acknowledging the source.
Reusing text from your own previous publications without attribution or agreement of the editor.

Misconduct

In situations of alleged misconduct, IREH will follow COPE guidance. In cases of misconduct, if necessary, we will correct or clarify the record. This may include retraction, issuing a correction or expression of concern, as per COPE guidelines.

Additional resources on publication ethics are available from COPE and WAME.

Acknowledgements

Please note, this is drawn up from COPE guidelines, and from https://journals.plos.org/plosone/s/ethical-publishing-practice. IREH thanks the advice of Richard White, Manager, Copyright & Open Access, University of Otago/ Te Whare Wananga o Otago.

Editorial team

Editor: James Beattie, The Centre for Science in Society, Victoria University of Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand; Research Associate, the Centre for Environmental History, The Australian National University, Australia; Senior Research Associate, Department of History, Faculty of Humanities, University of Johannesburg, Republic of South Africa; Senior Research Associate, World Centre for Environmental History, Sussex University, United Kingdom

Associate Editors:

Brett M. Bennett, University of Western Sydney, Australia; University of Johannesburg, Republic of South Africa
Andrea Gaynor, University of Western Australia, Australia
Ruth Morgan, Australian National University, Australia

Copyeditor: Austin Gee

Contact: james.beattie@vuw.ac.nz

Board members

Courtney Addison, Victoria University of Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand
Eugene N. Anderson, University of California, Riverside, United States of America
Alessandro Antonello, Flinders University, Australia
Maohong Bao包茂宏, Peking University, People’s Republic of China
Greg Barton, University of Western Sydney, Australia
David Biggs, University of California, Riverside, United States of America
Tom Brooking, University of Otago, Aotearoa New Zealand
Nicholas Brown, The Australian National University, Australia
Matthew Chew, Arizona State University, United States of America
Bruce Clarkson, University of Waikato
Christopher J. Courtney, Durham University
Rosi Crane, Otago Museum
Gregory T. Cushman, Department of History, University of Arizona
Vinita Damodaran, University of Sussex
Rohan D'Souza, Kyoto University
Ian Duggan, University of Waikato
Sonja Dumpelmann, Harvard University
Fa-ti Fan, Binghamton University
James R. Fleming, Colby College
Guorong Gao, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Andrea Gaynor, University of Western Australia
Tom Griffiths, The Australian National University
Eugenia Herbert, Mount Holyoke College
Katie Holmes, La Trobe University
Adrian Howkins, Colorado State University
Tom Isern, North Dakota State University
Nancy Jacobs, Brown University
Ryan Tucker Jones, Oregon State University
Peter Lavelle, Temple University
Joseph Lawson, Newcastle University
Robert B. Marks, Whittier College
Edward Melillo, Amherst College
Simone Muller, Rachel Carson Center, Ludwigs Maximilian University, Munich
Grace Moore, University of Otago
Emily O'Gorman, Macquarie University
Hiroki Oikawa及川敬貴, Yokohama National University
José Pádua, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Eric Pawson, University of Canterbury
Ulrike Plath, Tallinn University
Simon Pooley, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Rebecca Rice, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Libby Robin, The Australian National University
Kirstie Ross, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
Cordula Scherer, Trinity College Dublin
Fei Sheng费晟, Sun Yat-Sen University
Lance van Sittert, University of Cape Town
Paul Star, University of Waikato
Sandra Swart, Stellenbosch University
Fiona Williamson, Singapore Management University

Please send article submissions or abstracts to the Editor, Associate Professor James Beattie, Science in Society, Victoria University of Wellington, P.O. Box 600, Wellington 6142, New Zealand. Email: james.beattie@vuw.ac.nz

Abstracts should be no more than 200 words, and include a list of keywords. Articles should be in the range 5,000 to 8,000 words (including footnotes), although longer submissions may be considered after consultation with the Editor.

Style and referencing: please use footnotes in Chicago style, and follow Australian spelling. For more details on Chicago style, please see: www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html

The journal also accepts letters and short ‘think pieces’. Please contact the Editor for further information.

International Review of Environmental History: Volume 10, Issue 1, 2024 »

Edited by: James Beattie, Ruth Morgan

Publication date: October 2024

This latest issue of the International Review of Environmental History takes readers from tiger hunts in sixteenth-century India to the rise of organic foods across the Anglosphere by the late 1970s. Along the way, readers will encounter the ways that Cantonese migrants interpreted the environments of Aotearoa New Zealand at the turn of the twentieth century, and the influence of environmentalism in the US trade union movement during the 1960s. This issue also features a forum on a growing area of interest for environmental historians and allied practitioners, the history of emotions in response to environmental change. Here, scholars outline an historiography of ecological anxiety and reflect on the role of emotions in their historical practice at a time of planetary crisis. Despite the diverse settings and topics of the papers herein, together the collection reveals the enduring impacts of how different societies have understood and shaped the more-than-human world.