In May 2014 the Center for Ecological History hosted a conference dedicated to Raymond Williams's groundbreaking work The Country and the City, co-sponsored by the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society.

Now, a selection of papers deriving from this conference have been published as a special issue of the renowned journal Global Environments with the White Horse Press. The volume is entitled "The Country and the City", edited by CEH member Agnes Kneitz with a foreword by distinguished foreign expert Donald Worster. The articles in this volume aim to break down the city/country binary and create a more complex understanding of the interconnections between city and countryside. Examining topics from the feces-fertilizer cycle in China, to anti-urban policies in Tanzania, landfills and air pollution in the United States and England, and fisheries in Japan, the contributions are truly global in scope and represent a wide variety of disciplines - from environmental history and geography to architecture and political science.

For more information on the issue, please visit the Global Environments website.