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“The Value of Fragments: Making a Hotspot in Mount Nimba, Liberia”
Emmanuelle Roth and Gregg Mitman write about how capitalism fragments nature to create value. Such fragments can precipitate biodiversity loss.
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“In a Northern Sandbox: A World Congress in Finland”
An account of how the 2024 World Congress of Environmental History developed from idea to reality, and of what this trajectory says about environmental historical scholarship today.
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The Mistral: A Windswept History of Modern France
A book examining the power of the mistral wind and the ways it has challenged central tenets of nineteenth-century European society.
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Donatella de Rita on "The Role of Geology in Urban Site and Development"
Donatella de Rita, Carson Fellow from April 2012 until June 2012, speaks about her research project on urban development and the associated hazard in volcanic areas, as well as on geoarcheology.
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Wild Mushrooming: A Guide for Foragers
Excerpt from Wild Mushrooming: A Guide for Foragers by Alison Pouliot and Tom May.
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“Environmental History’s Usable Past: On Reviving the Scholarship of Synthesis”
A reflection on the historical approach to synthesis as a part of the toolbox of environmental history, with a focus on Lewis Mumford.
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Meetings with Remarkable Mushrooms: Forays with Fungi across Hemispheres
Excerpt from Meetings with Remarkable Mushrooms: Forays with Fungi across Hemispheres by Alison Pouliot.
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Fishing the Great Lakes: An Environmental History, 1783–1933
Traces the changing relationships between the fish resources and the people of the Great Lakes region.
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“Storying Monocrop Infrastructure: A Conversation on Governance, Scale, and Failure”
An interview of Kregg Hetherington by Sophie Chao.
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“Multispecies, More-Than-Human, Nonhuman, Other-Than-Human”
A discussion on the terms multispecies, non-human, and more-than-human.