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Internationalism in the Heart of Africa? The Albert National Park / Virunga National Park
The Virunga National Park (Democratic Republic of the Congo) is still partially influenced by imaginaries developed in the 1920s.
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Landscape of Insecurity: The Intricacies of Environmental Changes in Nigeria’s Oil-Rich Niger Delta Region
Once a benefit to humanity but now a scourge, the environment of the Niger Delta has been transformed into a haven for violence, militancy, and criminality.
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Connection to Nature: The Experience of the Right of Public Access
Outdoor recreational access in the form of Swedish right to public access may provide people with the opportunity to connect to nature.
Perspectives Article
Green City Promises and "Just Sustainabilities"
Vanesa Castán Broto critiques sustainable development agendas that approach green cities as merely engines of economic growth.
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Ancestral Outdoorsmen and Historical Hikes
These Boy Scout images, particularly focused on the 1919–1925 era, demonstrate that human labor and history permeated popular American nature ideology and hiking practices at that time.
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The Founding of the Danish Environmental Movement NOAH
In 1969, the Danish environmental organization NOAH is established, following a spectacular happening at the University of Copenhagen.
Multimedia | journal article
"Environmental Leaders and Indigenous Engagement in Australia: A Cosmopolitan Endeavour?"
Drawing on interviews with 25 Australian environmental leaders, the authors ask how international instruments with cosmopolitan ambitions influence the discourse and practice of national and subnational environmentalists attempting to find common ground with Indigenous groups.
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"Environmental Leaders and Indigenous Engagement in Australia: A Cosmopolitan Endeavour?"
Based on 25 interviews with Australian environmental leaders, the authors assess the value and benefit of the World Heritage Convention and the UNDRIP in relation to Indigenous communities and cosmopolitanism.
Exhibition chapter
Why Europe Responded Differently from the United States | Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring
This is Chapter 9 of the exhibition “Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring: A book that changed the world” by historian Mark Stoll.
Perspectives Article
Searching for Gigi: Captivity, Culture, and the Pacific Coast’s Embrace of Gray Whales
Jason Colby explores the role of one female gray whale in shaping human perceptions of her species and their status in the wild.