Mapping Biocultural and Economic Diversity … Everywhere
The article shows how the Sami of northern Norway are creating new openings and opportunities for more localized management systems based on local environmental knowledge.
The article shows how the Sami of northern Norway are creating new openings and opportunities for more localized management systems based on local environmental knowledge.
The close coexistence of multiple worldviews, which I identify in their most extreme incarnations as indigenous and mestizo, are key to understanding the environmental history of the Tropical Andes from the nineteenth century.
In 1862, Wilhelm von Blandowski produced The Encyclopedia of Australia as a large visual atlas of 142 plates dedicated to a comprehensive representation of the continent Australia.
Asikel tells of the journey of Tuareg men who, after a great drought, seek work in the city to support their families.
Life as a Hunt chronicles the history of the Valley Bisa people, their evolving landscapes and knowledge, and the ‘conservation battlefield’ their homeland has become.
This Austin Earth First! publication titled “End Corporate Dominance!” features topics like the menace of the Endangered Species Act, the global gathering of indigenous people fighting the oil industry, Mexican Zapatismo, Austin’s transportation and land use infrastructure, Freeport McMoran mining in West Papua, Indonesia, and the children’s march to save Sierra Blanca.
Berros describes some of the first cases in which Rights of Nature was directly referenced in the courts of Ecuador.
In this article for a Special Section on “Inheriting the Ecological Legacies of Settler Colonialism,” Alexander R. D. Zahara and Myra J. Hird explore the ways in which western and Inuit cosmologies differentially inform particular relationships with the inhuman, and “trash animals” in particular. They compare vermin control practiced in Canada’s waste sites with the freedom of ravens to explore waste sites within Inuit communities, arguing that waste and wasting exist within a complex set of historically embedded and contemporaneously contested neo-colonial structures and processes.
Sudeep Jana Thing, Roy Jones, and Christina Birdsall Jones investigate the recent participatory turn in nature conservation policy and practices through an ethnographic investigation of the experiences of the marginalised Sonaha (indigenous people of the Bardia region) in relation to the conservation discourses, policies, and practices of the Bardia National Park authorities in the Nepalese lowland.
In this Special Section on the Green Economy in the South, Stasja Koot and Walter van Beek argue that a Community Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) program in the Nyae Nyae Conservancy in Namibia, with a strong focus on tourism, has dominated and changed the environment of the Ju/’hoansi Bushmen.