"Convergence, Divergence and the Complex Nature of Environmental Problems. Editorial"
Isis Brook’s editorial for Environmental Values 17.
Isis Brook’s editorial for Environmental Values 17.
In this paper, it is argued that many social practices serve human purposes and also provide a setting for the emergence of environmental value.
The paper discusses some relationships between aesthetic and non-aesthetic reasons for valuing rural landscape, i.e., landscape shaped by predominantly non-aesthetic purposes.
In this essay, Nicole Klenk uses different interpretations of nature to make three distinct but related points relevant to forestry.
In his essay, Paul M. Keeling tries to answer the question if the idea of wilderness needs a defence.
This article blurs the boundaries of literature, agriculture, public history, grassroots political activism, and public policymaking in order to problematize the current eco-cosmopolitan trajectory of ecocritical theory.
In this paper the author discusses three possible alternative interpretations of the meaning of places and place attachment in ‘new nature’ projects, and shows how all three imply a different view on human identity and history.
In this study the authors offer an analysis of the socio-ecological transformation of Matadepera, a wealthy suburb of metropolitan Barcelona that evolved out of a rural village inhabited by poor peasants who farmed rain-fed cropland and managed the forest.
This case study of deforested land in northern Minnesota, transformed by the lumber industry during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, shows how differently institutions and individuals can think about climate and ecology when examining the connection between migration and climate.
This article explores the relationship between disasters and the population movements in two case studies: The 1908 Messina earthquake and the 1968 Belice Valley earthquake.