Péter Szabó
@pszaboenviro.bsky.social
environmental historian | historical ecologist | Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences | Faculty of Social Sciences, Masaryk University #envhist #historicalecology
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🚨JOB ALERT🚨
Come work with me in Brno in a new project on how Scots pine & forestry changed societies and environments in the 18th-19th centuries! 🌲🌳
👇Fully funded postdoc position 👇
www.ibot.cas.cz/en/vacancies...
Application deadline: 13.11.2025
Please distribute widely!
#envhist #histecol
Come work with me in Brno in a new project on how Scots pine & forestry changed societies and environments in the 18th-19th centuries! 🌲🌳
👇Fully funded postdoc position 👇
www.ibot.cas.cz/en/vacancies...
Application deadline: 13.11.2025
Please distribute widely!
#envhist #histecol
🚨JOB ALERT🚨
Come work with me in Brno in a new project on how Scots pine & forestry changed societies and environments in the 18th-19th centuries! 🌲🌳
👇Fully funded postdoc position 👇
www.ibot.cas.cz/en/vacancies...
Application deadline: 13.11.2025
Please distribute widely!
#envhist #histecol
Come work with me in Brno in a new project on how Scots pine & forestry changed societies and environments in the 18th-19th centuries! 🌲🌳
👇Fully funded postdoc position 👇
www.ibot.cas.cz/en/vacancies...
Application deadline: 13.11.2025
Please distribute widely!
#envhist #histecol
October 14, 2025 at 2:07 PM
🚨JOB ALERT🚨
Come work with me in Brno in a new project on how Scots pine & forestry changed societies and environments in the 18th-19th centuries! 🌲🌳
👇Fully funded postdoc position 👇
www.ibot.cas.cz/en/vacancies...
Application deadline: 13.11.2025
Please distribute widely!
#envhist #histecol
Come work with me in Brno in a new project on how Scots pine & forestry changed societies and environments in the 18th-19th centuries! 🌲🌳
👇Fully funded postdoc position 👇
www.ibot.cas.cz/en/vacancies...
Application deadline: 13.11.2025
Please distribute widely!
#envhist #histecol
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I published my very first international scientific article in Environment and History! In it, I examine the contested history of the Ecological Indian trope and its entanglements with the genealogy of Indigenous knowledges, the topic of my PhD. Read an excerpt here:
#envhist
#envhist
The Contested History of the Ecological Indian Trope: Politics of Knowledge in Conservation Science and Anthropology 1990–2000
In this blog to accompany her just-published article ‘The Contested History of the Ecological Indian Trope: Politics of Knowledge in Conservation Science and Anthropology 1990–2000’ in …
whitehorsepress.blog
September 30, 2025 at 5:41 AM
I published my very first international scientific article in Environment and History! In it, I examine the contested history of the Ecological Indian trope and its entanglements with the genealogy of Indigenous knowledges, the topic of my PhD. Read an excerpt here:
#envhist
#envhist
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📣 It's publication day! 🔥Burning Swamps🔥 is out with @universitypress.cambridge.org ! My book tells the forgotten history of peat in the context of Russia’s industrialization & electrification and points to the lingering presence of past extraction 1/5
#envhist #energysky
#envhist #energysky
September 25, 2025 at 8:46 AM
📣 It's publication day! 🔥Burning Swamps🔥 is out with @universitypress.cambridge.org ! My book tells the forgotten history of peat in the context of Russia’s industrialization & electrification and points to the lingering presence of past extraction 1/5
#envhist #energysky
#envhist #energysky
It's a rare treat to see a medieval environmental history book, not to mention a great one. So, everybody, go get your copy and dig in! #envhist
Incredibly proud of this recognition by my peers. Finalist for the biennial St. Andrew's book award from the ESEH and RCC, both communities that matter deeply to me.
Shortlist:
Gabriela Jarzębowska, 𝘚𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘊𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘗𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘙𝘢𝘵 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘭
Joana Gaspar de Freitas, 𝘈 𝘎𝘭𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘭 𝘌𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘏𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘊𝘰𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘋𝘶𝘯𝘦𝘴
Ellen Arnold, 𝘔𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘷𝘢𝘭 𝘙𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘱𝘦𝘴: 𝘌𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘔𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘔𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘕𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘩𝘸𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘌𝘶𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘦, 𝘤𝘢. 300–1100
@medievalpenguin.bsky.social
Gabriela Jarzębowska, 𝘚𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘊𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘗𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘙𝘢𝘵 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘭
Joana Gaspar de Freitas, 𝘈 𝘎𝘭𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘭 𝘌𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘏𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘊𝘰𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘋𝘶𝘯𝘦𝘴
Ellen Arnold, 𝘔𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘷𝘢𝘭 𝘙𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘱𝘦𝘴: 𝘌𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘔𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘔𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘕𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘩𝘸𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘌𝘶𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘦, 𝘤𝘢. 300–1100
@medievalpenguin.bsky.social
September 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
It's a rare treat to see a medieval environmental history book, not to mention a great one. So, everybody, go get your copy and dig in! #envhist
Reposted by Péter Szabó
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ko-fi.com
September 20, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Consider sending some funds to this rad crew of #envhist scholars doing good work.
Our recent paper in Nature Reviews Biodiversity
doi.org/10.1038/s443...
resulted from a wonderful workhop in Sevilla in 2023. You can now watch all the presentations from this workshop here:
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
#envhist #histecol
doi.org/10.1038/s443...
resulted from a wonderful workhop in Sevilla in 2023. You can now watch all the presentations from this workshop here:
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
#envhist #histecol
SOURCES 2023 - YouTube
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September 19, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Our recent paper in Nature Reviews Biodiversity
doi.org/10.1038/s443...
resulted from a wonderful workhop in Sevilla in 2023. You can now watch all the presentations from this workshop here:
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
#envhist #histecol
doi.org/10.1038/s443...
resulted from a wonderful workhop in Sevilla in 2023. You can now watch all the presentations from this workshop here:
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
#envhist #histecol
Are you at the beginning of your career and interested in environmental history? This is the best way to get involved 👇
Are you following our Early-Career-Scholar network, ESEH NextGate? They organize events and support young scholars. Follow here: @esehnextgate.bsky.social
#envhist #envhum
#envhist #envhum
September 12, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Are you at the beginning of your career and interested in environmental history? This is the best way to get involved 👇
Very glad to have been part of this! 👇
Fresh off the press! Our perspective in @natrevbiodiv.nature.com discusses the wealth of information on biodiversity contained in historical sources, and its integration for long-term ecological knowledge and biodiversity conservation. A thread on the paper and what led to it:
rdcu.be/eEcIt
rdcu.be/eEcIt
September 8, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Very glad to have been part of this! 👇
Although heavily Anglo-American in focus, there is a lot I can relate to concerning #envhist in this roundtable paper, especially the bits about interdisciplinary cooperation.
I'm delighted that @royalhistsoc.org has published our roundtable article on 'The Future of (Environmental) History'.
This came out of a workshop in April 2023 with @northernenvhistory.bsky.social
I've summarised our paper (link to OA article) in a blog 👇
blog.royalhistsoc.org/2025/07/27/f...
This came out of a workshop in April 2023 with @northernenvhistory.bsky.social
I've summarised our paper (link to OA article) in a blog 👇
blog.royalhistsoc.org/2025/07/27/f...
Four Suggestions for the Future of (Environmental) History | Historical Transactions
blog.royalhistsoc.org
July 28, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Although heavily Anglo-American in focus, there is a lot I can relate to concerning #envhist in this roundtable paper, especially the bits about interdisciplinary cooperation.
Have a nice summer, everyone
July 18, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Have a nice summer, everyone
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My letter ‘‘Awkward wording. Rephrase’’: linguistic injustice in ecological journals, published in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social, has 100 citations in GS
I received dozens of messages from all over the world sharing linguistic injustice experiences. Nice sense of group
www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
I received dozens of messages from all over the world sharing linguistic injustice experiences. Nice sense of group
www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
July 16, 2025 at 9:30 AM
My letter ‘‘Awkward wording. Rephrase’’: linguistic injustice in ecological journals, published in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social, has 100 citations in GS
I received dozens of messages from all over the world sharing linguistic injustice experiences. Nice sense of group
www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
I received dozens of messages from all over the world sharing linguistic injustice experiences. Nice sense of group
www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
Hiking through Rychlebské hory (=Góry Złote, Reichensteiner Gebirge, you choose), I was suprised (and impressed) to find
that many (though by far not all) kilometres of the boundary between 🇵🇱 and 🇨🇿 are marked by a drystone wall. Will check the literature to find out more!
that many (though by far not all) kilometres of the boundary between 🇵🇱 and 🇨🇿 are marked by a drystone wall. Will check the literature to find out more!
July 9, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Hiking through Rychlebské hory (=Góry Złote, Reichensteiner Gebirge, you choose), I was suprised (and impressed) to find
that many (though by far not all) kilometres of the boundary between 🇵🇱 and 🇨🇿 are marked by a drystone wall. Will check the literature to find out more!
that many (though by far not all) kilometres of the boundary between 🇵🇱 and 🇨🇿 are marked by a drystone wall. Will check the literature to find out more!
Reposted by Péter Szabó
Just completed this year's edition of our Writing Support Programme! Brilliant participants, papers & discussants✨️ Big thanks to all! @etnobioannavarga.bsky.social @sarahparkhouse.bsky.social @harrycroft.bsky.social @rubyekkel.bsky.social @yaronbalslev.bsky.social @lailaia2.bsky.social
#envhist
#envhist
June 30, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Just completed this year's edition of our Writing Support Programme! Brilliant participants, papers & discussants✨️ Big thanks to all! @etnobioannavarga.bsky.social @sarahparkhouse.bsky.social @harrycroft.bsky.social @rubyekkel.bsky.social @yaronbalslev.bsky.social @lailaia2.bsky.social
#envhist
#envhist
Check out this great conference, so sorry I can't be there myself!
🪵Forest of Numbers
📌University of Turin, 10–11 July 2025
More info: eseh.org/conference-f...
The conference aims at offering novel methodological insights into quantitative approaches to the economic history of forestry
#foresthist #envhist #EconomicHistory
📌University of Turin, 10–11 July 2025
More info: eseh.org/conference-f...
The conference aims at offering novel methodological insights into quantitative approaches to the economic history of forestry
#foresthist #envhist #EconomicHistory
June 17, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Check out this great conference, so sorry I can't be there myself!
Reposted by Péter Szabó
Yesterday we had a pleasant and fruitful workshop of like-minded researchers from three projects (INFEST, Vienna - CONCRIS, Brno - REFRESH, Ostrava) in Brno. Looking forward to further collaboration on 19th-century forests and forestry!
@maschmid.bsky.social @simonegingrich.bsky.social
@maschmid.bsky.social @simonegingrich.bsky.social
June 11, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Yesterday we had a pleasant and fruitful workshop of like-minded researchers from three projects (INFEST, Vienna - CONCRIS, Brno - REFRESH, Ostrava) in Brno. Looking forward to further collaboration on 19th-century forests and forestry!
@maschmid.bsky.social @simonegingrich.bsky.social
@maschmid.bsky.social @simonegingrich.bsky.social
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📚New Book Series in #envhist edited by Stephen Brain & Viktor Pal (@viktorpal.bsky.social) is up and running!
Get in touch with the editors and share your book proposal.
More info 👇
Get in touch with the editors and share your book proposal.
More info 👇
May 5, 2025 at 2:50 PM
📚New Book Series in #envhist edited by Stephen Brain & Viktor Pal (@viktorpal.bsky.social) is up and running!
Get in touch with the editors and share your book proposal.
More info 👇
Get in touch with the editors and share your book proposal.
More info 👇
Where did ordinary building timber come from before 🚂 made transport cheap? In our new paper, we analyzed 1231 dendrodated constructions and coeval archival data to show that timber was most probably sourced locally. (But watch out for 🌲🌳 floating!) #envhist
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Local timber dominated pre-industrial construction: Insights from archival and dendrochronological data
In pre-modern Europe, timber was notoriously difficult and costly to transport on land, therefore it is usually assumed that ordinary buildings – exce…
www.sciencedirect.com
April 14, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Where did ordinary building timber come from before 🚂 made transport cheap? In our new paper, we analyzed 1231 dendrodated constructions and coeval archival data to show that timber was most probably sourced locally. (But watch out for 🌲🌳 floating!) #envhist
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Reposted by Péter Szabó
Ahead of new print alert! You can now read @julianordblad.bsky.social's "The Nature of Planetary Habitability: A Conceptual History of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services" from the April 2025 issue. #envhist #envhum #biodiversity
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
The Nature of Planetary Habitability: A Conceptual History of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services | Environmental History
Abstract This essay traces the conceptual history of biodiversity and ecosystem services from the late 1970s to the early 2000s. In contrast to recent historical studies that have interpreted biodiver...
www.journals.uchicago.edu
March 25, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Ahead of new print alert! You can now read @julianordblad.bsky.social's "The Nature of Planetary Habitability: A Conceptual History of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services" from the April 2025 issue. #envhist #envhum #biodiversity
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Excel will make you a hierarchical treemap chart, but the ones they used to have in the 19th century are so much cooler. Check this one out in the 1830 Statistical Yearbook of the Austrian Monarchy. Land-use in Küstenland.
March 24, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Excel will make you a hierarchical treemap chart, but the ones they used to have in the 19th century are so much cooler. Check this one out in the 1830 Statistical Yearbook of the Austrian Monarchy. Land-use in Küstenland.
Reposted by Péter Szabó
New 𝘈𝘳𝘤𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘢 article on the historical politicization of the invasive black locust (𝘙𝘰𝘣𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘢 𝘱𝘴𝘦𝘶𝘥𝘰𝘢𝘤𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘢) in Hungary. Read "Links between State Power and Tree Species: Black Locust in Central Europe" by Robert Balogh on the Environment & Society Portal! #envhist
Links between State Power and Tree Species: Black Locust in Central Europe
The historical politicization of the invasive black locust in Hungary.
www.environmentandsociety.org
March 17, 2025 at 8:03 AM
New 𝘈𝘳𝘤𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘢 article on the historical politicization of the invasive black locust (𝘙𝘰𝘣𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘢 𝘱𝘴𝘦𝘶𝘥𝘰𝘢𝘤𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘢) in Hungary. Read "Links between State Power and Tree Species: Black Locust in Central Europe" by Robert Balogh on the Environment & Society Portal! #envhist
The future of humanity on planet Earth seems bleak, not only because things are bad now but also because they are moving in the wrong direction. It's hard not be depressed reading the latest report of the European Academies Science Advisory Council 👇
easac.eu/fileadmin/us...
easac.eu/fileadmin/us...
easac.eu
March 10, 2025 at 11:00 AM
The future of humanity on planet Earth seems bleak, not only because things are bad now but also because they are moving in the wrong direction. It's hard not be depressed reading the latest report of the European Academies Science Advisory Council 👇
easac.eu/fileadmin/us...
easac.eu/fileadmin/us...
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💥The ESEH is looking for the venue for the 2027 conference! Consider bringing our community to your city in a couple of years' time.
Check the call and get in touch with us if you want to know more.
eseh.org/call-for-app...
Deadline for application: 31 March
#envhist
Check the call and get in touch with us if you want to know more.
eseh.org/call-for-app...
Deadline for application: 31 March
#envhist
Call for Applications to Host the ESEH Conference 2027 – European Society for Environmental History
eseh.org
March 7, 2025 at 4:49 AM
💥The ESEH is looking for the venue for the 2027 conference! Consider bringing our community to your city in a couple of years' time.
Check the call and get in touch with us if you want to know more.
eseh.org/call-for-app...
Deadline for application: 31 March
#envhist
Check the call and get in touch with us if you want to know more.
eseh.org/call-for-app...
Deadline for application: 31 March
#envhist