Editor's note

摘要

As I write this editorial note, I am in Turku, Finland, for the 2011 European Society for Environmental History conference, where I've witnessed four stimulating days of sessions, plenaries, and conversations. Scholars from many nations and many disciplines have converged on this maritime city to discuss the encounters of sea and land. Tales of historic overfishing, reconstructions of past climates, and zooarcheological analyses of fish bones have jostled with discourse analyses and examinations of urban metabolism. I hope to encourage some of the same intellectual ferment in the pages of Environmental History. Scholars from outside the United States tend to assume that Environmental History mostly wants articles that stay within certain geographic and thematic limits. It's true that the journal has published its share of articles on wilderness in America. But although the journal will continue to welcome submissions of essays that examine conservation history in the United States, I encourage far wider perspectives as well. This issue reflects some of that diversity.