

For the special section “Living Lexicon for the Environmental Humanities,” Celia Lowe reflects on the meanings of “infection” and the problems these pose for the Environmental Humanities.
In his article for the special section “Living Lexicon for the Environmental Humanities,” Tom Bristow unpacks the concept of memory and the idea of the archive.
Looking at the case of organisms attached to tsunami debris rafting across the Pacific to Oregon, Jonathan L. Clark examines how invasive species managers think about the moral status of the animals they seek to manage.
In the special section “Imagining Anew: Challenges of Representing the Anthropocene,” Wolfgang Struck’s essay examines the renewed attraction to the medium of the atlas in light of representational challenges raised by the model of the Anthropocene.
In this article, Monica Vasile discusses the recent reintroduction of bison in the Romanian Carpathians, and the surrounding local narratives and unresolved tensions.
Examining three natural protected areas in Ecuador and Spain, Cortes-Vazquez and Ruiz-Ballesteros offer a more nuanced understanding of the connection between different regulatory regimes and the formation of environmental subjects, using a phenomenological approach that places more emphasis on the agency of the people subjected to conservation.
Examining the case of the Bellbird Biological Corridor in Costa Rica, Karen Allen argues that conservation policy should reinforce multifaceted social values toward sustainable landscapes, rather than promote economic incentives that reduce environmental benefits to exchange value.
Focusing on Jasper National Park, Megan Youdelis argues that austerity politics create the conditions for a re-articulation of the politics of conservation governance as the interests of parks departments and private sector interests are brought into alignment.
Clotilde Lebreton analyses the discursive, participative, and negotiation practices in the territorialized public action that occurred during the category change of the Nevado de Toluca Protected Area in Mexico from a high conservation status to a more flexible one.
Analyzing the Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda, Munanura et al. examine how livelihood constraints in poor forest-adjacent communities influence illegal forest use.