Multimedia | film profile
Gas Hole
This film criticizes America’s dependency on oil, explains how oil companies were able to establish their power, and provides information on viable and affordable alternatives to petroleum fuel.
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Multimedia | journal article
"Sacrifice"
In the special section titled “Living Lexicon for the Environmental Section,” Hugo Reinert writes about the history of sacrifice and parses it as violence.
Multimedia | book profile
About the Hearth: Perspectives on the Home, Hearth and Household in the Circumpolar North
Through interdisciplinary work in the circumpolar north, About the Hearth refocuses on issues of material culture and social organization in indigenous and local communities. In the process, it makes some compelling ethnographic and theoretical arguments.
Multimedia | book, full-text
Boomgaard, Peter, Freek Colombijn, and David Henley, eds., Paper Landscapes: Explorations in the Environmental History of Indonesia
A collection of essays that explore the “paper landscapes” of the colonial literature and archives in search of the real environmental history of Indonesia.
Multimedia | book profile
Coal: A Human History
Barbara Freese takes us on a rich historical journey that begins hundreds of millions of years ago and spans the globe. Coal is a captivating narrative about an ordinary substance with an extraordinary impact on human civilization.
Exhibition chapter
JUDAS DONKEY: After Deborah Bird Rose | Ghosh in Munich
Abi Andrews’ “JUDAS DONKEY” is a memorable animal-centered story set in outback Australia, consistently atmospheric and chillingly portrayed. It is one of the two honorable mentions in the fiction category of the RCC environmental writing competition “Tell the Untold!”
Multimedia | podcast
Interview with Allison Cobb, author of Plastic: An Autobiography
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Allision Cobb is interviewed on her book, Plastic: An Autobiography.
Arcadia
Methodological Benefits of a GIS Map: The Example of the Eldgjá Eruption of the Late 930s CE and the Reliability of Historical Documents
The Eldgjá eruption in Iceland in the late 930s CE seems to have had tremendous repercussions. Only a few historical documents were written during the time in question.
Multimedia | journal article
"The Dynamics of Framing Environmental Values and Policy: Four Models of Societal Processes"
Clark A. Miller proposes four models of societal processes by which framing occurs, concluding with ideas for further research.
Multimedia | journal article
"Ecological Restoration and Place Attachment: Emplacing Non-Places?"
In this paper the author discusses three possible alternative interpretations of the meaning of places and place attachment in ‘new nature’ projects, and shows how all three imply a different view on human identity and history.