Perspectives Article
Whale Peoples and Pacific Worlds
Joshua L. Reid concludes that the history of Pacific whaling has undergone a scholarly renaissance.
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Interview with John Soluri and Claudia Leal, editors of A Living Past: Environmental Histories of Modern Latin America
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, John Soluri and Claudia Leal are interviewed on their edited volume, A Living Past: Environmental Histories of Modern Latin America.
Multimedia | journal article
“Celebrating Jodha: And Revisiting the Commons”
In this article, Harini Nagendra, Pranab Mukhopadhyay, and Rucha Ghate celebrate Narpat S. Jodha and revisit his work on the commons in India.
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“Gender and the Commons: Water Management in Trans-Himalayan Spiti Valley, India”
In this article, Ranjini Murali, Ajay Bijoor, and Charudutt Mishra highlight the role of women in the governance of the commons and point to the nuanced and variable roles found within this gender group.
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Interview with Tom Philpott, author of Perilous Bounty: The Looming Collapse of American Farming and How We Can Prevent It
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Tom Philpott is interviewed on his book, Perilous Bounty: The Looming Collapse of American Farming and How We Can Prevent It.
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“A World Parliament of Rivers”
Rita Brara and María Valeria Berros argue for the importance of a legal recognition of rivers. “What we want for rivers now is an institution that can be entrusted with their environmental protection on a global scale.”
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Stevia as a Genetic Resource: Intellectual Property and Guaraní Strategies for Access-and-Benefit Sharing in Paraguay and Brazil
The Guaraní accused global corporations such as Coca Cola and Cargill of using their traditional knowledge associated with the stevia plant and filed for an access-and-benefit sharing agreement.
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Interview with Daniel Macfarlane, author of Natural Allies: Environment, Energy, and the History of US–Canada Relations
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Daniel Macfarlane is interviewed on his recent book, Natural Allies: Environment, Energy, and the History of US–Canada Relations.
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The Green Power of Socialism: Wood, Forest, and the Making of Soviet Industrially Embedded Ecology
Full text of Elena Kochetkova’s The Green Power of Socialism: Wood, Forest, and the Making of Soviet Industrially Embedded Ecology, a book on the relationship between nature and humans under state socialism.
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“Mother Drone, Mother Nature: The Griffon Vulture and Israel’s Military”
This essay examines how military, technology, and nature converge in the Israeli griffon vulture project and what politics stand behind it.