"Rhododendron ponticum in Britain and Ireland: Social, Economic and Ecological Factors in its Successful Invasion"
Rhododendron ponticum is the most expensive alien plant conservation problem in Britain and Ireland.
Rhododendron ponticum is the most expensive alien plant conservation problem in Britain and Ireland.
This essay explores the dynamics of failure to strike a solution to the problem of invasive species in the form of water hyacinth through an examination of the competing domains of bureaucracy, science and private commercial interests in a colonial context.
Three species of the family Mustelidae (stoats, weasels and ferrets) were initially introduced into New Zealand (and granted statutory protection) in an attempt to control a burgeoning rabbit population…
This issue calls readers to action to save the Headwaters ancient forest groves from salvage logging. It also includes reports on medical hemp, non-native species arriving with imported logs from Siberia, and the Coho salmon. Dan Hamburg endorses Ralph Nader for US president.
In this introduction to the special issue on Multispecies Studies, Thom van Dooren, Eben Kirksey, and Ursula Münster provide an overview of the emerging field of multispecies studies. Unsettling given notions of species, the article explores a broad terrain of possible modes of classifying, categorizing, and paying attention to the diverse ways of life that constitute worlds.
Timothy Hodgetts’s article for the Living Lexicon for the Environmental Humanities explores connectivity as a placeholder that seeks to capture multiple forms of multispecies mobility, using the eastern gray squirrel in English landscapes as an example.
Justine Parkin’s article for the Living Lexicon for the Environmental Humanities explores the concept of fecundity and interspecies relations.
The authors analyze the portrayal in popular conservation discourse of the flowering plant Rhododendron ponticum as an invasive species in the British countryside, especially Scotland. They explore how its invasiveness is materially produced via the cultural and socioeconomic as well as vegetal relations within which it is entangled.
Sophie Chao delves into an unexplored dimension of the agribusiness nexus—the affective attachments of corporate actors to oil palm seeds. Drawing from fieldwork in an oil palm concession in Riau, Sumatra, she highlights the conflicting nature of caring for palm oil seeds.