East of the Elbe is a new peer-reviewed, open access forum for the environmental history of: • East-Central Europe (Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary) • Central Europe (Austria, relevant regions of Germany) • Eastern Europe (Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Russia, western Russia) • Southeastern/Balkan Europe (Slovenia, Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, North Macedonia, and other former Yugoslav republics) • The Baltic region (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania). Comparative studies engaging multiple regions or connecting CEE to broader European/global environmental histories will also be welcomed.

Priority topics include: Forest and water histories; river engineering and infrastructure • Histories of pollution, toxicity, environmental health, and discard studies • Waste management and consumption regimes • Environmentalism and environmental movements (grassroots and state-sponsored) • State socialism and environmental governance; centralised planning and ecological consequences • Technopolitics of nature; technological modernisation and environmental transformation • Agricultural and rural environmental change; collectivisation and land use • Industrial development, mining, and environmental impact • Urban environmental history, infrastructure, and ecosystems • Biodiversity, conservation, protected areas, and species histories • Environmental thought, ideology, and scientific knowledge production • Post-socialist environmental transitions and legacies • Gender and consumption history; everyday environmentalism • Comparative regional and transnational environmental history • Long-term socio-ecological dynamics and ecological footprint analysis.

All historical periods are welcome, from medieval to contemporary, with particular emphasis on the 18th–21st centuries and especially the socialist period (1945–1991) and its legacies.

Enquiries about the journal may be emailed to the editors.

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