Multimedia | journal article
"Living With Parasites in Palo Verde National Park"
Eben Kirksey on how diverging values and obligations shape relationships in multi-species worlds.
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Arcadia
The Man-Made Environment of Valaam Island
Valaam Island on Lake Ladoga is the location of the Orthodox Valaam Monastery. Due to the creation of alleys and gardens carefully cultivated by the monks, many non-endemic trees and plants acclimatized successfully. As a result, Valaam’s largely man-made environment is today considered to be one of the most dense and diverse biospheres in Europe.
Multimedia | journal article
"Unruly Edges: Mushrooms as Companion Species"
Anna Tsing’s essay opens a door to multispecies landscapes as protagonists for histories of the world.
Multimedia | podcast
"Medicinal Plants in New Zealand: Bridging the Gap between Medical and Environmental History"
Joanna Bishop explores the story of the introduction and use of medicinal plants in New Zealand and their botanical, medical, and environmental histories.
Multimedia | podcast
"Remaking Wetlands: A Tale of Rice, Ducks, and Floods in the Murrumbidgee River Region"
Emily O’Gorman examines the ways in which ducks as well as people negotiated the changing water landscapes of the Murrumbidgee River caused by the creation of rice paddies.
Multimedia | journal article
"Individual or Community? Two Approaches to Ecophilosophy in Practice"
Should environmental philosophers—or practical conservationists—focus their attentions on particular living creatures, or on the community of which they, and we, are part?
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“Questions of Importance to the Conservation of Biological Diversity: Answers from the Past”
This paper illustrates, through a series of case-studies, how long-term ecological records (>50 years) can provide a test of predictions and assumptions of ecological processes that are directly relevant to management strategies necessary to retain biological diversity in a changing climate.
Perspectives
Why Do We Value Diversity? Biocultural Diversity in a Global Context
The concept of biocultural diversity was introduced by ethnobiologists to argue that the variation within ecological systems is inextricably linked to cultural and linguistic differences. In this volume of RCC Perspectives, scholars from a wide range of fields reflect on the definition, impact, and possible vulnerabilities of the concept.
Multimedia | interviews and talks
Brand, Stewart, "4 Environmental Heresies"
Stewart Brand talks about cities, nuclear power, genetic modification, and geo-engineering.
Multimedia | interviews and talks
Jackson, Jeremy, “How We Wrecked the Ocean”
A leader in the study of the ecology and evolution of marine organisms, Jeremy Jackson is known for his deep understanding of geological time.