International Review of Environmental History

Aims & Scope

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.

Metrics & Ranking

Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

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• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Arts and Humanities and Environmental Science, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

Licensing & Copyright

This journal operates under an Open Access model. Articles are freely accessible to the public immediately upon publication. The content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), allowing users to share and adapt the work with proper attribution.

Copyright remains with the author(s), and no permission is required for non-commercial use, provided the original source is cited.

Policy Links

This section provides access to essential policy documents, guidelines, and resources related to the journal’s publication and submission processes.

• Aims scope
• Homepage
• Oa statement
• Author instructions
• License terms
• Review url
• Board url
• Copyright url
• Preservation url
• Apc url
• License

APC Details

The journal’s Article Processing Charge (APC) policies support open access publishing in Arts and Humanities and Environmental Science, ensuring accessibility and quality in research dissemination.

This journal does not charge a mandatory Article Processing Charge (APC). However, optional open access publication may incur fees based on the publisher’s policies.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Ecologists, Environmentalists, Experts, and the Invasion of the ‘Second Greatest Threat’

  Citation: 38

  Authors: Matthew K.

• Following dioxin’s drift: Agent Orange stories and the challenge of metabolic history

  Citation: 14

  Authors: David

• What have limpets ever done for us? On the past and present provisioning and cultural services of limpets

  Citation: 13

  Authors: Louise B.

• Disasters fast and slow: The temporality of hazards in environmental history

  Citation: 11

  Authors: Fiona, Chris

• Typhoons and droughts: Food shortages and famine in the Philippines since the seventeenth century

  Citation: 8

  Authors: James F.

• Environmental Disturbance Triggering Infestations of Gorse, Rabbits, and Thistles in Southern New Zealand: 1850 to 1980

  Citation: 7

  Authors: Peter, Guil

• Imaginary sea monsters and real environmental threats: Reconsidering the famous Osborne, ‘Moha-moha’, Valhalla, and ‘Soay beast’ sightings of unidentified marine objects

  Citation: 6

  Authors: R. L.

• The chronology of a sad historical misjudgement: The introductions of rabbits and ferrets in nineteenth-century New Zealand

  Citation: 6

  Authors: Carolyn

• Uncertainty and the emotional landscape of drought

  Citation: 5

  Authors: Rebecca

• Affective ecological restoration, bodies of emotional practice

  Citation: 5

  Authors: Lilian M.