Perspectives Article
Who Generates Demand for Sustainable Energy Transitions? Geothermal Heating in Reykjavík
Odinn Melsted traces Reykjavík’s transition from coal to geothermal energy.
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Multimedia | journal article
"Towards a Conceptualisation of Power in Fuelwood Access in Zimbabwe"
The authors illuminate the power relations between state actors and the local people in accessing fuelwood in Zimbabwe, and how discourses of scarcity enhance these power dynamics.
Multimedia | journal article
"Genealogies and Politics of Belonging: People, Nature and Conservation in the Nilgiri Hills of Tamil Nadu"
The authors highlight how the Indian state increasingly views adivasis (=indigenous people) as a possible ethno-environmental fix for conservation, and how non-adivasis project their environmental subjectivities to claim that they, too, belong.
Multimedia | journal article
"Creating Landscapes of Coexistence: Do Conservation Interventions Promote Tolerance of Lions in Human-dominated Landscapes?"
This paper uses a comparative case study approach to explore the individual and societal desire to maintain current lion populations alongside communities in Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park, Tanzania’s Ruaha National Park, and Kenya’s southern Maasailand.
Arcadia
Was Capitalism the Crisis? Mount Lebanon’s World War I Famine
Mount Lebanon’s distinctive environmental history accounts for its susceptibility to famine.
Arcadia
Electronic Waste in Guiyu: A City under Change?
Once the largest toxic e-waste dump in the world, government investment in environmentally sustainable recycling has begun to change Guiyu.
Exhibition chapter
The Belly of the City | Ecopolis München 2019
The Belly of the City: What lies hidden deep within Munich? Although in many other cities the central slaughterhouses have long since been shut down, animals are still butchered in the middle of Munich even today.
Exhibition chapter
StadtAcker | Ecopolis München 2019
StadtAcker: Munich’s most valuable oasis? An example of how the dream of an urban garden can become a reality is the StadtAcker. Assisted by the city administration, citizens created a green oasis.
Arcadia
Problematic Postage: Canada’s Claim to the Arctic through a Postage Stamp
In 1955, the Canadian Post Office Department issues a stamp to highlight its effective occupation of the High Arctic.
