Environmental history: a transatlantic perspective

In this edition Marc Hall, Assistant Professor at the
Universities of Utah and Zurich, considers the question if there
are different regional flavours of environmental history. He is
well placed to do so with his transatlantic institutional
affiliations. In addition he argues that environmental history
has moved beyond the question of how we got into the
environmental problems that we are facing at present. Now
environmental historians consider how and why people have changed
ecosystems and how in return the environment changes people in
the way they act and think. This opens up a whole new set of
question for historians to address making environmental history
potentially a dynamic field. But what is the future of the field?