Environmental history: definitions, methods and challenges

Environmental history is still a young field and in some respects
quite undefined. Many practitioners as well as outsiders struggle
to define its boundaries. The challenge that historians are now
facing is how to cope with an ever expanding field and how to
integrate not only data from other humanities but also the
sciences. In this edition of the podcast Paul Warde, Reader in
modern history at the University of East Anglia, agues that not
defining the boundaries of the field or a common methodology is
key to the success of environmental history but also its
weakness. It brings excitement and new ideas to history but in
the end, if environmental history stays too diverse; it is not
clear where it is going. How to deal with this problem is one of
the key issues discussed in this edition of the podcast.