Wild Earth 10, no. 2
Wild Earth 10, no. 2 is dedicated to US national parks and protected areas. It also features articles by John Muir on anthropocentrism and James Morton Turner on early American environmentalism.
Wild Earth 10, no. 2 is dedicated to US national parks and protected areas. It also features articles by John Muir on anthropocentrism and James Morton Turner on early American environmentalism.
Denis Wood takes a fresh look at what maps do, whose interests they serve, and how they can be used in surprising, creative, and radical ways.
Denis Wood shows how maps are not impartial reference objects, but rather instruments of communication, persuasion, and power.
In the special section “Imagining Anew: Challenges of Representing the Anthropocene,” Wolfgang Struck’s essay examines the renewed attraction to the medium of the atlas in light of representational challenges raised by the model of the Anthropocene.
In episode 46 of Nature’s Past, a podcast on Canadian environmental history, Sean Kheraj speaks with the editors of Historical GIS Research in Canada, Jennifer Bonnell and Marcel Fortin, as well as a few contributors.
The authors explore the implementation of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and Indigenous knowledge (IK) in mapping efforts, taking cues from previous spatio-temporal visualization work in the Geographic(al) Information System(s)/Science(s) GIS community, and from temporal depictions extant in existing cultural traditions.
Kenneth Olwig on landscape. This is an entry in the KTH EHL VideoDictionary.
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Candace Fujikane is interviewed on her book, Mapping Abundance for a Planetary Future: Kanaka Maoli and Critical Settler Cartographies in Hawai’i.
This study reviews the main changes of the vegetation and fauna in northern Portugal during the Holocene, using literature from palaeoecology, archaeology, history, writings from travellers and naturalists, maps of agriculture and forestry and expert consultation.