This concern for landscape and environment has been bolstered by the emergence of environmental history, particularly at the Universities of St. Andrews and Stirling (www.st-andrews.ac.uk/envhist; www.cehp.stir.ac.uk). Environmental history has an obvious connection with landscape archaeology and historical geography in that its core subject matter is the relationship between society and the environment. Within this broad remit, recent foci of research have included woodland history, the history of pollution, land use and cultural landscapes, nature conservation and countryside recreation, and species history.