Juliet Kariuki, Regina Birner, and Susan Chomba offer an alternative conceptualization to mainstream neoclassical understandings of Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES), examining roles of formal and informal institutions in influencing equitable outcomes in two Kenyan cases.
McKenzie F. Johnson, Krithi K. Karanth, and Erika Weinthal evaluate compensation as a mitigation policy for human-wildlife conflict around four protected areas in Rajasthan (Jaisamand, Sitamata, Phulwari, and Kumbhalgarh), finding efforts insensitive to local livelihoods.
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.
Deborah Cleland and Raissa Ocaya San Jose apply Iris Marion Young’s theory of communicative democracy framework to a case study of fisheries stakeholder workshops in the Philippines.
Using examples from environmental governance and conservation, Esther Turnhout engages critically with the ideal of policy-relevant environmental knowledge.
Looking at cases of Indigenous land and sea management in Australia, Austin et al. suggest four ways Indigenous groups and institutional investors can work together to establish meaningful criteria for ensuring effective conservation outcomes.
Andrés León Araya reviews Jim Igoe’s The Nature of Spectacle: On Images, Money, and Conservation Capitalism.
John Reid-Hresko’s article draws on 18 months of comparative ethnographic research with men and women who are employed and reside in protected areas in northern Tanzania and South Africa’s Kruger National Park.
Examining a case of electric power transmission in California in the early twentieth century, Etienne Benson reveals how industrial infrastructures are embedded in complex environments animated by unexpected agencies often invisible to their users.
In his article for the special “Living Lexicon for the Environmental Humanities Section,” Mike Hulme goes beyond traditional, institutional definitions to view climate as an idea which mediates between the human experience of ephemeral weather and the cultural ways of living which are animated by this experience.
