Marco Armiero is Director of the Environmental Humanities Laboratory at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, where he is also Associate Professor of Environmental History He is the author of A Rugged Nation. Mountains and the Making of Modern Italy (2011) and co-editor of A History of Environmentalism. Local Stories, Global Struggles (2014) and Nature and History in Modern Italy (2010). Armiero is a senior editor of Capitalism Nature Socialism and Environmental Humanities.

Richard Tucker is Adjunct Professor in the School of Natural Resources, University of Michigan, USA His earlier publications addressed the history of environmental change in the colonial and tropical world, including Insatiable Appetite: The United States and the Ecological Degradation of the Tropical World(2000) and A Forest History of India (2010). His recent work addresses the environmental history of [...] is author of numerous essays and co-editor of several multi-author books on the subject, including Natural Enemy, Natural Ally: Toward an Environmental History of War (2004).

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Introduction: migrants in environmental history

Marco Armiero and Richard Tucker

Part I

Changing natures

1 Waves of migration: settlement and creation of the Hawaiian environment
Carol MacLennan

2 European immigration and changes in the landscape of southern Brazil
Eunice Sueli Nodari and Miguel Mundstock Xavier de Carvalho

3 Migrants and the making of the American landscape
Marco Armiero

4 Making the land Russian? Migration, settlement, and environment in the Russian Far East, 1860-1914
Mark Sokolsky

5 Coal lives: body, work and memory among Italian miners in Wallonia, Belgium
Daniele Valisena and Marco Armiero

Part II

Racializing natures

6 Riotous environments: Filipino immigrants in the fields of California
Linda L. Ivey

7 Creating the threatening "others": environment, Chinese immigrants and racist discourse in colonial Australia
Fei Sheng

8 Nativist politics and environmental privilege: ecological and cultural conflicts concerning Latin American migration to the United States
David Naguib Pellow and Lisa Sun-Hee Park

Part III

Naturalising causes

9 Environmental degradation as a cause of migration: cautionary tales from Brazil
Angus Wright

10 The ecological and social vulnerability of the Three Gorges resettlement area in China, 1992-2012
Ying Xing

11 Archaeologies of the future: tracing the lineage of contemporary discourses on the climate-migration nexus
Giovanni Bettini

Index