Plants and society
Environmental History
My research centers on the history of how humans perceive, alter or manage the natural world, and how the natural world alters the way people live and think. Research methodologies in environmental history include interviews, analyses of cultural and natural archives, as well as field and laboratory observations.
Research topics
Ecological restoration and rewilding
Management of alien invasive species
Environmental effects of war
Malaria control with pesticides
Interdisciplinary
Cooperation with ecologists, evolutionary biologists, palaeobotanists, environnmentalists
