Multimedia | journal article
“Agricultural Sustainability in the Semi-Arid Near East”
An overview of agricultural sustainability in the eastern Mediterranean Levantine Corridor (the western part of the Fertile Crescent).
Show search results for
Multimedia | journal article
“Putting the Rise of the Inca Empire within a Climatic and Land Management Context”
In this article, the authors argue that the rise of the Inca would not have been possible without increased crop productivity, which was linked to more favorable climatic conditions.
Multimedia | journal article
"Vacating the Floodplain: Urban Property, Engineering, and Floods in Brisbane (1974-2011)"
Margaret Cook exposes the dominant socio-economic and political values that shaped flood management between 1974 and 2011 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Multimedia | journal article
"Intimate Exclusions from the REDD+ forests of Sungai Lamandau, Indonesia"
In this Special Section on the Green Economy in the South, Peter Howson reflects on the Sungai Lamandau REDD+ demonstration activity in Indonesia. He focuses on “intimate exclusions” – everyday processes of accumulation and dispossession among villagers and small-holders – to highlight the hazards of developing REDD+ projects structured with limited sympathy for marginalized actors.
Multimedia | journal article
"Climate Trauma, or the Affects of the Catastrophe to Come"
Micheal Richardson investigates the impact of envisioning climate catastrophe in three works, namely George Miller’s film Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), Marina Zurkow’s animation Slurb (2009), and Briohny Doyle’s novel The Island Will Sink (2016).
Multimedia | journal article
“The Shifting Baseline Syndrome as a Connective Concept for More Informed and Just Responses to Global Environmental Change.”
In this article, the authors re-envision the ‘shifting baseline syndrome” in an ecological context.
Multimedia | journal article
“Monarchs of the Great Plains: Plant Power and Colonial Legacies in North America”
In this article, historian Sara M. Gregg considers the connections between North America’s Monarch butterflies, milkweed, and the legacy of European settlement.
Multimedia | journal article
“The Slow Death of an Ethiopian Lake”
In this article, environmentalist Hayal Desta considers the impact of agrarian practices and climate change on Lake Ziway, Ethiopia.
Multimedia | journal article
“The Isthmus of Panama and the Knowledge Anthropocene”
In this Springs article, historian Paul S. Sutter considers the “Knowledge Anthropocene” as well as deep time in George Perkins Marsh’s understanding of the construction of Panama’s Darién canal.