RCC Perspectives

Issue 2018/3

Sites of Remembering: Landscapes, Lessons, Policies

Edited by Vikas Lakhani and Eveline de Smalen

This volume explores the potential contribution memory studies can make to policymaking, in particular on conservation and disaster resilience.

Issue 2018/2

Out of the Mountains: Changing Landscapes in Rural China

Zhen Wang

Zhen Wang’s photo essay explores in detail how nearly 40 years of urbanization and rapid economic development have transformed the past, present, and future of the Yi population and of China’s rural and cultural landscapes.

Issue 2018/1

Green City: Explorations and Visions of Urban Sustainability

Edited by Simone M. Müller and Annika Mattissek

This volume explores the “green city” concept from a global and interdisciplinary perspective. Contributions examine the conflicts inherent in eco-modernization and investigate opportunities to respond meaningfully to urban environmental challenges.

Issue 2017/6

Can Nature Have Rights? Legal and Political Insights

Edited by Anna Leah Tabios Hillebrecht and María Valeria Berros

The authors of this volume explore the potential value and challenges of the Rights of Nature concept by examining legal theory, politics, and recent case studies.

Issue 2017/5

The Good Muck: Toward an Excremental History of China

By Donald Worster

This monograph explores the history of the use of human excrement as agricultural fertilizer in China.

Issue 2017/4

Men and Nature: Hegemonic Masculinities and Environmental Change

Edited by Sherilyn MacGregor and Nicole Seymour

The essays in this collection explore how masculine roles, identities, and practices shape human relationships with the more-than-human world.

Issue 2017/3

The Ecology of Home

By Xia Mingfang

This essay examines environmental thought in China and the West to propose an “ecological history” that offers new ways to think about the human/nature relationship.

Issue 2017/2

Visions of Australia: Environments in History

Edited by Christof Mauch, Ruth Morgan, and Emily O'Gorman

The contributions in this volume explore the way that Australasian environments have been envisioned, worked, and changed in the past, and how ideas about places inform the present and future of the continent.

Issue 2017/1

Troubling Species: Care and Belonging in a Relational World

Edited by The Multispecies Editing Collective

The categories and the types of care we assign are very often tenuous and troubled in nature. The articles in this volume explore some of the intricacy, ambiguity, and even irony in our perceptions and approaches to “multispecies” relations.

Issue 2016/5

Molding the Planet: Human Niche Construction at Work

Edited by Maurits W. Ertsen, Christof Mauch, and Edmund Russell

This volume explores some of the diverse niches created by humans in different times and places. The essays span the globe, from Texas to China, from Scandinavia to Papua New Guinea, exploring agricultural spaces and indoor biomes, human aesthetics, and Anthropocentric perspectives.

About RCC Perspectives

RCC Perspectives is an open-access publication that exists to record and reflect the activities of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. The journal was rebranded in 2016 as RCC Perspectives: Transformations in Environment and Society. It provides a forum for examining the interrelationship between environmental and social changes and is designed to inspire new perspectives on humanity and the wider world. RCC Perspectives aims to bridge the gap between scholarly and non-scholarly audiences and encourage international dialogue.

Guidelines for contributors (English)

The Perspectives Team

Published from 2010 to 2020, the series editors of RCC Perspectives were RCC Directors Christof Mauch and Helmuth Trischler. The former editing team consisted of Harriet Windley and Kristy Henderson. Katie Ritson served as co-series editor and managing editor for many years alongside former editors Brenda Black, Stephanie Hood, Hannah Roberson, and Samantha Rothbart.