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Feathering the Multispecies Nest: Green Cities, Convivial Spaces
Rigby reimagines green cities from an interdisciplinary environmental humanities perspective to see how they can also be sites of more-than-human prosperity.
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Multimedia | film profile
Money in the Mangroves
This short film combines remote sensing, qualitative interviews, desk research, and illustrations to show the complexities and controversies surrounding mangrove reforestation in Senegal and The Gambia.
Arcadia
Breeding for the Future: Corn and Climate Change
Climate change impacts both the goals of corn breeders, and their current everyday research.
Multimedia | book profile
Alternative Futures: India Unshackled
Alternative Futures brings together 35 essays on India’s future, written by a diverse set of authors: activists, researchers, media persons, those who have influenced policies, and those working at the grassroots. Divided into four sections—Ecological Futures, Political Futures, Economic Futures, and Socio-Cultural Futures—the book covers a wide range of issues including environmental governance, biodiversity, democracy and power, law, agriculture, pastoralism, industry, languages, learning and education, knowledge, health and sexuality among others.
Arcadia
Living on Coral Time: Debating Conservation in the Anthropocene
Coral scientists are dealing with an existential crisis and are divided between hope and despair in their approaches to coral conservation.
Arcadia
American Champion Trees and the Wye Oak of Maryland
The surprising pedigree of a botanical idea.
Multimedia | book, full-text
Birds in Our Lives
Birds in Our Lives is an account of bird conservation in India, written by conservationist Ashish Kothari. It educates the reader on the importance of birds in Indian culture and economy and highlights the imminent threats to their habitats and populations, as well as growing efforts to conserve birdlife.
Multimedia | journal article
"The Persistence of Tightly Coupled Conflicts. The Case of Loisaba, Kenya"
Arjaan Pellis, Annemiek Pas, and Martijn Duineveld build upon Niklas Luhmann’s Social Systems Theory to study the multidimensional nature of resource-based conflicts in and around Loisaba conservancy in Kenya.
Multimedia | journal article
"Edenic Views in Wetland Conservation: Nature and Agriculture in the Fogliano Area, Italy"
Paolo Gruppuso explores the genealogy of Edenic narratives about the Pontine Marshes in Agro Pontino, Italy, and the imaginary of the Bonifica Integrale, or integral reclamation.
Multimedia | journal article
"Balancing Conservation and Livelihoods: A Study of Forest-dependent Communities in the Philippines"
The authors investigate how land cover, land use, and protected area management affects communities around a forest reserve in the Philippines. They conclude that incorporating local livelihoods into forest conservation strategies results in a measure of sustainability and positively impacts the socioeconomic well-being of communities near the protected area.