This podcast is an audio registration of the roundtable discussion of a series of three workshops organised by the AHRC funded Histories of Environmental Change Network at the 6th conference of the European Society for Environmental history in Turku, Finland. The panel members of the roundtable are the thee organisers of the workshop, Peter Coates of Bristol University, Paul Warde of the University of East Anglia and David Moon of Durham University. To underline the global they were joined by three leading environmental historians from other parts of the world: Jan Carruthers of the University of South, Libby Robin of the Australian National University and Petra van Dam of the Free University Amsterdam. The panel discussed with the audience the issues raised at the workshops in a global, comparative perspective.