This article discusses apocalyptic imagination in and beyond the sciences.
Periodicals
“Apocalypse Then, Now—and Future?”
“Speaking for the Earth and Humans in the ‘Age of Consequences’”
This article discusses the future of the environmental humanities and their relation to geoscience.
“Political, Ethical, and Societal Aspects of Issuing Warnings to Humanity”
In this article, Steven Yearley writes about the problems and possibilities of scholars and scientists issuing warnings to leaders and policy-makers.
“‘We’ May Be in This Together, but We Are Not All Human and We Are Not One and the Same”
In this article, Rosi Braidotti explores the relation between posthumanism and the environmental humanities.
“Seeds of Transformative Change”
In this essay, inaugural issue editors Steven Hartman and Serpil Oppermann introduce the new open-access journal Ecocene.
“Adaptation Measures to Combat Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture: An Empirical Investigation in the Chambal Basin”
This study is based on the empirical investigation of the climate change adaptation measures adopted by the farmers in the Chambal basin.
“Co-Location, Socioeconomic Status and Perceptions of Environmental Change in the Indian Sundarbans”
Research on determinants of collective action in the commons generally focuses on interest-group heterogeneity, implicitly assuming that groups perceive the same problems but have different priorities. This paper changes the focus to the role played by perceptions themselves.
“Has Economics Caught Up with Climate Science?”
Whereas scientific evidence points towards substantial and urgent reduction in greenhouses gas (GHG) emissions, economic analysis of climate change seems to be out of sync by indicating a more gradual approach.
“Soil Conservation in a Watershed: Institutional Alternatives”
The private, collective and public nature of soil quality in a watershed provides three different institutional alternatives for watershed management: individual, collective and government action. This study reviews the success and failure of these alternatives in different parts of the world.
“Austere Conservation: Understanding Conflicts over Resource Governance in Tanzanian Wildlife Management Areas”
The authors examine how public participation is structured in the regime of rules over access to land, natural, and financial resources of a Wildlife Management Area (WMA) in Tanzania.