Wild Earth 2, no. 1
Wild Earth 2, no. 1 with essays on the ecological costs of livestock, bison hunt, trouts and their habitat, “wheeled locusts,” and off-road-vehicle trails on public lands.
Wild Earth 2, no. 1 with essays on the ecological costs of livestock, bison hunt, trouts and their habitat, “wheeled locusts,” and off-road-vehicle trails on public lands.
Wild Earth 6, no. 2 features Bill McKibben on nature writing and common ground, Laura Westra writes about ecosystem integrity, sustainability, and the “Fish Wars”, and W. O. Pruitt explains “The Caribou Commons.”
Managing the Unknown offers essays that show that deficient knowledge is a far more pervasive challenge in resource history than conventional readings suggest. Furthermore, environmental ignorance does not inevitably shrink with the march of scientific progress. This volume combines insights from different continents as well as the seas in between and thus sketches outlines of an emerging global resource history.
This issue of Mendocino Environmental Center Newsletter reports on the cultural evolution of Headwaters Forest, the Coho salmon, and provides an update on Judi Bari’s lawsuit.
Etienne Sabatier and Charlie Huveneers examine media portrayals of human-shark encounters between 2011 and 2013 in the state of Western Australia, arguing that negative framing by media feeds public anxiety.
Victoria Gonzalez Carman and Maria Carman focus on the interaction between a fishing community and a group of conservation experts in Brazil. They find that although fishers classify species according to their capacity to be exploited as a resource, they may also be willing to become strategic conservationists by negotiating with conservation experts to protect some of these species.
The article explores the complex socio-environmental relations of small-scale inland fishing by using the Pantanal wetland in Brazil as a case study and attempts to deconstruct environmental narratives behind top-down fishing management practices.