In this article, David Gentilcore writes about the Venetian cistern-system and its a success as a technology for treating rainwater.
Periodicals
“Technology as a Strategy of the Human? A Comparison Between the Extension Concept and the Fetish Concept of Technology”
“‘Cool and Tasty Waters’: Managing Naples’s Water Supply, c. 1500–c. 1750”
In this article, David Gentilcore writes about the water supply of Naples, Italy, in the early modern period.
“The Cistern-System of Early Modern Venice: Technology, Politics and Culture in a Hydraulic Society.”
In this article, David Gentilcore writes about the Venetian cistern-system and its a success as a technology for treating rainwater.
“The Return of Nature: Decolonial Reinhabitation and Self-Indigenisation in Kodagu, India”
In this article, former Carson Landhaus Fellow Subarna De contextualises the ecological and cultural practices of the Kodagu coffee plantations of Southern India within the post-/decolonial framework of bioregional reinhabitation.
“Pragas, patógenos e plantas na história dos sistemas agroecológicos” [Pest crops, pathogens, and plants in the history of agroecological systems]
This article addresses the deep history of pest crops and plant diseases in historical agriculture development.
“Earth Beyond Six of Nine Planetary Boundaries”
A 2023 update on the planetary boundaries framework.
“Frame Alignment Between Environmentalists and the Sámi in the Forest Dispute in Inari, Finland Until the 2000s—Competing Conservation Needs and Obstacles for Co-Living with the Non-Human”
This article investigates the relationship between Sámi actors and environmentalists in Inari, Finland.
“Vulnerable Populations: The Role of Population Dynamics in Climate Change Resilience and Adaptation in Africa”
The editorial for Vulnerable Populations: The Role of Population Dynamics in Climate Change Resilience and Adaptation in Africa, a special issue of The Journal of Population and Sustainability.
“The Poor Woods of Northern Nigeria”
A writer and literary scholar, Sule Emmanuel Egya weaves together a personal love letter to trees with accounts of having witnessed extractive wood logging in Gombe, Nigeria. To what extent can the Gombe State tree planting policy attempt to salvage such hostility toward trees?
“The Isthmus of Panama and the Knowledge Anthropocene”
In this Springs article, historian Paul S. Sutter considers the “Knowledge Anthropocene” as well as deep time in George Perkins Marsh’s understanding of the construction of Panama’s Darién canal.