Italian Environmental Literature: An Anthology
This volume brings together, for the first time—in Italy or for an English-speaking audience—a collection of over 40 authors from this deep and broad tradition of Italian environmental writing.
This volume brings together, for the first time—in Italy or for an English-speaking audience—a collection of over 40 authors from this deep and broad tradition of Italian environmental writing.
George Perkins Marsh (1801-1882) was the first to reveal the menace of environmental misuse, to explain its causes, and to prescribe reforms. David Lowenthal here offers fresh insights, from new sources, into Marsh’s career and shows his relevance today.
The contributions to this volume explore and uncover contemporary scholarship’s debt to the classical and medieval past.
Mick Smith argues that the expressivist hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer and Walter Benjamin might offer an alternative understanding of the nature of language and the language of nature.
Wild Earth 9, no. 3 celebrates Aldo Leopold’s legacy. Also in this issue are reports on the Loomis Forest Wildlands, the Southern Rockies and the Grand Canyon ecoregion, and indigenous knowledge and conservation policy in Papua New Guinea.
Wild Earth 10, no. 4 celebrates the journal’s 10-year anniversary with a retrospective of past highlights and many new contributions.
The Monkey Wrench Gang fueled a new generation of angry young environmentalists (such as Earth First!) who practice monkey-wrenching, or sabotage for the sake of protecting the wilderness.
This article examines whether and how Aldo Leopold was influenced by American Pragmatism, a formal school of philosophy.
This historiographical essay outlines and discusses major trends within European environmental history by highlighting recent discussions and future possibilities regarding collaboration across national borders and contexts, and ultimately arguing for more transnational cooperation within the field of environmental history.
Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE) is a Canadian-based confederation of researchers and educators who study nature and humans in Canada’s past.