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Cycling Cultures
This volume brings together a range of studies of cycling and cyclists, examining some of the diversity of practices and their representation.
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Krebs, Angelika, Ethics of Nature: A Map
Ethics of Nature is an inquiry into the value of nature. Is nature’s value only instrumental value for human beings or does nature also have intrinsic value?
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Postcolonial Ecologies: Literatures of the Environment
Postcolonial Ecologies: Literatures of the Environment is the first edited collection to bring ecocritical studies into a necessary dialogue with postcolonial studies.
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American Environments: Climate–Cultures–Catastrophe
This volume focuses on environmental knowledge production in the United States by taking as starting points the impact of natural catastrophes and of public debates on climate change and environmental threats.
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Energy Transitions: History, Requirements, Prospects
Vaclav Smil shows why energy transitions are inherently complex and prolonged affairs, and how ignoring this raises unrealistic expectations that the United States and other global economies can be weaned quickly from a primary dependency on fossil fuels.
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Ukraine and Camels: Features of the Incorporation into the Steppe Landscape
This Arcadia article is about how camels used, until recently, to be a central feature of the steppe landscape of Southern Ukraine.
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Holm, Poul, et al., "Humanities for the Environment—A Manifesto for Research and Action"
The authors offer a manifesto for the humanities to step up to the challenges of environmental change, and invite others to join the open global consortium Humanities for the Environment.
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American Horses for the South African War, 1899–1902
American equines shipped to the South African War suffered conditions like those on slave ships in the transatlantic slave trade.
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Rothschild's Wilderness: How a Primeval Forest Survived the Timber Industry
History of the primeval forest Urwald Rothwald and how it survived through time.