Shadowing the Anthropocene: Eco-Realism for Turbulent Times
Adrian Ivakhiv proposes an ecological realism based on humanity’s eventual demise, asking what we can do now and what quality of compost we should leave behind.
Adrian Ivakhiv proposes an ecological realism based on humanity’s eventual demise, asking what we can do now and what quality of compost we should leave behind.
Drawing on interviews with the managers of 56 internationally adjoining protected areas in 18 countries in the Americas, the study focuses on the link between land use change and environmental change, and on three adaptation strategies, namely diversification, pooling, and out-migration. It suggests that the impact of adaptation depends on the adaptation strategy chosen.
The authors explore the case of a Privately Protected Area (PPA) in Chilean Patagonia to learn its impact on local residents. Based on in-depth, semi-structured interviews, they find that the park has been detrimental to local livelihoods, has disrupted systems of production, and has elicited a negative emotional response.
In this article, Antoine Acker provides a different perspective on the Anthropocene.
John McNeill on the Anthropocene. This is an entry in the KTH EHL VideoDictionary.
Kenneth Olwig on landscape. This is an entry in the KTH EHL VideoDictionary.
This book is an exploration of the environmental makings and contested historical trajectories of environmental change in Turkey.
Child advocacy expert Richard Louv directly links the lack of nature in the lives of today’s wired generation—he calls it nature-deficit—to some of the most disturbing childhood trends, such as the rises in obesity, attention disorders, and depression.
Excerpt from the book Greening Europe: Environmental Protection in the Long Twentieth Century – A Handbook.
This book draws on the diversity of papers on deserts and drylands presented at the first Oxford Interdisciplinary Deserts Conference in March 2010.