The Return of Malthus: Environmentalism and Post-war Population–Resource Crises
A monograph on the postwar fear of scarcity and the influence of “neo-Malthusians.”
A monograph on the postwar fear of scarcity and the influence of “neo-Malthusians.”
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Thomas M. Lekan is interviewed on his recent book, Our Gigantic Zoo: A German Quest to Save the Serengeti.
Book excerpt from Turning to Nature in Germany by John Alexander Williams.
A book exploring the world of succulent collecting.
This volume explores the potential contribution memory studies can make to policymaking, in particular on conservation and disaster resilience.
In this chapter from the virtual exhibition “Global Environments: A 360º Visual Journey,” Sarah Elizabeth Yoho’s 360° video captures the process of constructing a dry stone wall in Italy’s Cinque Terre. In cooperation with community organization Tu Quoque Vernazza, it was filmed over nine days and is shown in time-lapse. The camera captures the grapevine’s point of view of Cinque Terre life.
This chapter of the “Wilderness Babel” exhibition, written by MSc student Natasha Yamamoto, looks at how wilderness may be expressed and understood in Japanese.
This part of the “Wilderness Babel” exhibition, written by semiotician Kadri Tüur, describes how terms denoting general categories regarding nature are quite diverse in Estonia—a country where language and culture have been very intimately intertwined with landscapes and their natural conditions.
Nancy Shoemaker considers the four main products harvested in the nineteenth-century sperm whale trade.