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An Overview of Research on Ecovillage at Ithaca
Ecovillage at Ithaca could be thought of as an “alternative suburb,” or as a US middle class neighborhood with an ecological focus and a high awareness of community.
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Collaborative Research: Examples and Lessons from a Baltic Sea Project
ECOVILLAGES, is a collaborative research project in which ecovillagers and academics, and ecovillager academics, aim to advance the political recognition, number, resources, and influence of ecovillages in the Baltic Sea Region.
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“For Whom? For the Future!” The Ecovillage Sieben Linden as a Model and Research Project
The authors discuss a series of workshops held with residents of the ecovillage Sieben Linden to discuss what the idea of being a “model and research project” meant to them.
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E. O. Wilson’s Biodiversity, Commodity Culture, and Sentimental Globalism
This essay discusses Biodiversity, the 1988 landmark collection of papers edited by American biologist E. O. Wilson, which established biodiversity as a popular scientific concept.
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Economic Diversity as a Performative Ontological Project
This article argues that in exploring the hypothesis that diversity creates resilience, we need to go beyond the simple notion that economic diversity is an unquestioned good.
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The Work of Wildness: Diversity and Difference in a Southwest Alaskan Salmon Fishery
What is the relationship of diversity to difference? This essay approaches the question through an examination of a wild salmon fishery in southwest Alaska and the industry dynamics through which salmon are reconfigured into changing commodities.
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Pitfalls and Opportunities in the Use of the Biodiversity Concept as a Political Tool for Forest Conservation in Brazil
This article looks at how the biodiversity concept has been used in relation to forest conservation in Brazil.
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Contentious Diversities and Dangerous Species: Biocultural Diversity in the Context of Human-Animal Conflicts
This article engages with such questions by focusing on the Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary of Kerala in southern India, arguing that a reconceptualization of both “culture” and “nature” will be necessary in order to prevent the concept of biocultural diversity from appearing as just another form of “green neocolonization” or “eco-imperialism.”
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The Politics of Making Biocultural Diversity
This essay highlights the temporal and conceptual novelty of biocultural diversity, considering how we can understand biocultural diversity in relation to power, history, and the role of governance. The essay shows how these questions arise by looking at their emergence in Southwest China’s Yunnan Province.
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Biocultural Diversity and the Problem of the Superabundant Individual
This paper deals with the subset of work on biocultural diversity that quantifies cultural and biological elements in order to map and compare them across regions.