Arcadia
Plant Politics in Karachi
This article investigates how plants are supported by systems of ethno-political, military, and neoliberal power in urban Pakistan.
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Sandpipers and the Art of Letting Go: Narratives of Conservation in the Wadden Sea
How birds and poetry reacquaint us with an awareness of history and feelings of loss in Anthropocene nature reserves.
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Water Wars: When Drought, Flood and Greed Collide
This film examines attempts by communities and experts around the world to protect their water resources in the face of global warming, pollution, and political conflict.
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The Journey of Sand: How the Yellow River Has Shaped Lankao County
This paper traces the journey of sand carried by China’s Yellow River to Lankao County, one of the locales most affected by sandification.
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The Neganthropocene
The Neganthropocene is a collection of essays and lectures focusing on the Anthropocene and the vast semantic horizon it encompasses, from philosophy to politics and the arts, through a renewed thought of the concepts of entropy and negentropy.
Perspectives
Energizing the Spaces of Everyday Life: Learning from the Past for a Sustainable Future
This volume of Perspectives offers case studies of energy transitions within everyday environments over the last two centuries, from Europe to South Asia, to North and Latin America.
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The Enemy is Nature: Military Machines and Technological Bricolage in Britain’s “Great Agricultural Experiment”
Cobbled-together machines are turned loose on nature in a desperate bid to coax peanuts from the soils of Tanganyika Territory.
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The Routledge Handbook of Environmental History
Read the introduction to The Routledge Handbook of Environmental History.
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"Learning From 'Actually Existing' REDD+: A Synthesis of Ethnographic Findings"
Synthesizing ethnographic case studies from mainland Southeast Asia, the authors critically review the implementation of REDD+, a UN project to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation. They argue that REDD+ maps onto local power structures and political economies in its implementation, rendering it blunt as a tool for change.
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"How Terms Shape Forests: 'Niederwald,' 'Mittelwald,' and 'Hochwald,' and their Interaction with Forest Development in the Canton of Zurich, Switzerland"
This paper describes a regional case study of the history of forestry practices in the north-eastern part of the central plateau of Switzerland during the nineteenth century, based on an analysis of official documents connected with forestry.