| 2006 Leopold-Hidy Award Judd, Richard W. "A 'Wonderfull Order and Ballance': Natural History and the Beginnings of Forest Conservation in America, 1730-1830." Environmental History 11 (January 2006): 8-36. Traces the origins of conservationist thinking--including the formulation of concepts of balance, interrelatedness, and the practical and spiritual importance of nature--among a group of scientists who constructed a system of American natural history while exploring the transappalachian frontier between 1730 and 1830. |
| 2005 Leopold-Hidy Award Mitman, Gregg. "In Search of Health: Landscape and Disease in American Environmental History." Environmental History 10 (April 2005): 184-210. Preliminary historiographic survey of landscape and disease in twentieth-century American environmental history, in search of past places where the concept of land health shaped human-environment interactions. Finds that most scholarship dealing with health is limited to urban studies, and encourages integrating it more fully into the study of environmental history in America. |
| 2004 Leopold-Hidy Award Walker, Brett L. "Meiji Modernization, Scientific Agriculture, and the Destruction of Japan's Hokkaido Wolf." Environmental History (April 2004): 248-274. Discusses the wolf eradication program implemented on the recommendation of American advisers on the island of Hokkaido in preparation for the development of a ranching industry that would help modernize Japan; late nineteenth century. |
| 2003 Leopold-Hidy Award Russell, Edmund. "Evolutionary History: Prospectus for a New Field." Environmental History 3 (April 2003): 204-228. Examines human impacts on the evolutionary process. |
| 2002 Leopold-Hidy Award Soluri, John. "Accounting for Taste: Export Bananas, Mass Markets, and Panama Disease." Environmental History 7 (July 2002): 386-410. Studies the economic and environmental reasons that fruit companies in Central America and the Caribbean delayed using disease-resistant banana varieties. From the 1880s through the 1970s. |
| 2001 Leopold-Hidy Award (2 award winners) Guha, Ramachandra. "The Prehistory of Community Forestry in India." Environmental History 6 (April 2001): 213-238. On the transference of forest management from the British colonial government to community forestry in India during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. McCarthy, Tom. "The Coming Wonder? Foresight and Early Concerns about the Automobile." Environmental History 6 (January 2001): 46-74. Studies environmental concerns resulting from automobile usage in the United States, during the twentieth century, the author asserting that inventors exhibited a lack of foresight in creating a vehicle that produced harmful emissions and operated on a non-renewable resource.
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| 2000 Aldo Leopold Award (presented by ASEH) Montrie, Chad. "Expedient Environmentalism: Opposition to Coal Surface Mining in Appalachia and the United Mine Workers of America, 1945-1977." Environmental History 5 (January 2000): 75-98. The United Mine Workers of America's focus on the health of the coal industry and the preservation of mineworker's jobs over protection of the environment, despite opposition from residents of Appalachia. |
| 2000 Ralph W. Hidy Award (presented by FHS) Johnson, Benjamin Heber. "Conservation, Subsistence, and Class at the Birth of Superior National Forest." Environmental History 4 (January 1999): 80-99. Discusses the class conflict over economic development and subsistence natural resource utilization and the environmental conflict over wilderness preservation and government regulation that arose in Ely, Minnesota, in the wake of the 1909 establishment of this national forest; early to mid-twentieth century. |
