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The Distant Roots of Beijing’s Palaces
Beijing’s huge palaces rest on giant timbers logged in the far reaches of southwestern China, a project with disastrous implications.
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“his & nature’s expropriation”: Wetland Enclosure, Salvage Poetics, and Social Reproduction in Wendy Mulford’s East Anglia Sequence
Wendy Mulford’s poetry reflects on drainage, environmental loss, and social reproduction in the fens, reframing environmental history through a Marxist-feminist lens.
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Other-than-Human Survivance Against the Trent-Severn Waterway
Emerging from an Indigenous Nishnaabeg ontology, “survivance” calls for an understanding of other-than-human persons as agentially surviving and resisting colonial violence.
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The Serre-Ponçon Dam and the Durance River: The Founding Act towards the most Regulated French Waterway
The construction of the Serre-Ponçon dam in 1955 was the first step in the development of dams in the Durance River, the most regulated waterway in France
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The Ecology of Yellow Fever in Antebellum New Orleans: Sugar, Water Control, and Urban Development
Epidemic yellow fever plagued New Orleans due to a series of environmental and demographic changes enabled by the rise of sugar production and urban development.
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Mountain, Militarized: North Korea, Nuclear Tests, and Nature
This essay examines North Korea’s 2017 nuclear test as an example of how the Korean peninsula’s landscapes became militarized.
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The Brazilian Campos in Nineteenth-Century Landscape Art
The settler occupation of Central Brazil is the focus of nineteenth-century landscape art.
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Revealing the “Almerian Miracle”: Materiality of the Agrarian Modernization in the Campo de Dalías
A reflection on the relevance of materialities in the history of the “Plastic Sea” of Almería.
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Development or Dunes? The Long Struggle to Protect Perth’s Scarborough Beach Coastal Reserve
The long battle to protect Scarborough Beach’s coastal dunes demonstrates both the power and limitations of local grassroots advocacy groups.