The author seeks to bring together environmental anthropology and history to frame the place of forests in humans’ lives, from a political ecology point of view. He does this by reflecting on his personal experiences in Northeast India, Kenya, and Sweden.
In this introduction to a special issue on human-nature interactions through a multispecies lens, the authors focus on the notion of “multispecies assemblages” and their role in conservation theory and practice at the intersection between ecology, history, and society.
The authors examine the issues related to environmental discounting in cost-benefit analyses on projects of environmental impact by using a Delphi survey of a worldwide panel drawn from specialists.
Drawing on interviews with 25 Australian environmental leaders, the authors ask how international instruments with cosmopolitan ambitions influence the discourse and practice of national and subnational environmentalists attempting to find common ground with Indigenous groups.
Based on 25 interviews with Australian environmental leaders, the authors assess the value and benefit of the World Heritage Convention and the UNDRIP in relation to Indigenous communities and cosmopolitanism.
This article explores the prospects and politics of indigenous participation in multi-sector conservation, using the case of the Boreal Leadership Council (BLC) in Canada. It concludes that multi-sector conservation creates both new possibilities for indigenous empowerment and new forms of marginalization through the reproduction of a (post)colonial geography of exclusion.
The author analyzes the increase of human-wildlife conflict (HWC) in Mozambique’s Limpopo National Park due to conservation-induced displacement.
Stephan Hochleithner argues that multi-dimensional resistance to Virunga National Park’s conservation strategies ties in with general conflict dynamics in eastern DRC, while at the same time reproducing them within the realm of nature conservation, tightly interwoven with global dynamics.
This article focuses on contemporary literary and musical interpretations of changing relationships between humans and the environment in Mongolia. The author explores how these works relate to deep time, and crosshatches biographical, mythological, and geologic understandings of time.
The article explores the opposing practices and philosophies between the Sámi people and state policymakers in northern Norway in terms of the human-environment relationship with a particular focus on language translation issues.
