Bear and Human: Facets of a Multi-Layered Relationship from Past to Recent Times, with Emphasis on Northern Europe
The full three volumes of a comprehensive work on the relationship between humans and bears.
The full three volumes of a comprehensive work on the relationship between humans and bears.
Earth First! 26, no. 1 features reports about climate change and climate justice, looks into the future of civilization, and fights for the rights of animals.
In this commentary piece, the six authors attempt to “reboot” or reinstitute a concept close to the heart of the Moderns, namely the assumption that the traditional concept of nature, as developed through modern European history, would no longer be adequate to a future beset by environmental crises.
This study historicises environmental issues at the Chinhoyi Caves that are of contemporaneous resonance with the ecological crisis faced by the modern world. It deals with important themes like water-resource management, indigenous knowledge and its efficacy in the preservation of nature, colonialism and its environmental implications, forest use and deforestation, dislocation and displacement of indigenous people, and the interaction of the local with the global.
Szerszynski’s article for the Special Commentary section of Environmental Humanities explores Pope Francis’s Laudato si’, particularly his call for a new “geo-spiritual formation.”
Conservation Song explores ways in which colonial relations shaped meanings and conflicts over environmental control and management in Malawi. By focusing on soil conservation, which required an integrated approach to the use and management of such natural resources as land, water, and forestry, it examines the origins and effects of policies and their legacies in the post-colonial era.
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Anna M. Gade is interviewed on her new book, Muslim Environmentalisms: Religious and Social Foundations.
An analysis of the book Gun Island by Amitav Ghosh.
Wild Earth 5, no. 2 discusses the environmental consequences of having a baby in the United States; bumblebee ecology; and the Nevada Biodiversity Research and Conservation Initiative.
In this issue of Earth First! Journal, Many Hats gives an update on the actions against MAXXAM/Pacific Lumber (PL), David Orr talks about the late David Ross—”a man who made a difference in the world”—and Christopher Beaver discusses the bird “massacres” due to collisions with wireless telecommunication antennas in North America.