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“Power Poverty: Energy Injustice in South Africa”
In this Springs article, historian Jane Carruthers explores the history and impact of energy injustice in South Africa.
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“Ecological Civilization”
In this Springs article, environmental historian Donald Worster delves into the material events behind cultural imaginaries in China, while asking for an ecological civilization. “Can humans learn, by subordinating their appetites to their brains, how to live on this earth intelligently and ethically?”
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“Cities by the Sea: A Tale of Qingdao and Los Angeles”
In this Springs article, environmental historian Shen Hou considers the shore lives of both Qingdao and Los Angeles.
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“Roots through Asphalt: A Conversation with Sonja Dümpelmann”
In this Springs article, landscape historian Sonja Dümpelmann and Rachel Carson Center editor Pauline Kargruber discuss plants in an urban environment.
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“The Slow Death of an Ethiopian Lake”
In this article, environmentalist Hayal Desta considers the impact of agrarian practices and climate change on Lake Ziway, Ethiopia.
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“The Isthmus of Panama and the Knowledge Anthropocene”
In this Springs article, historian Paul S. Sutter considers the “Knowledge Anthropocene” as well as deep time in George Perkins Marsh’s understanding of the construction of Panama’s Darién canal.
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Interview with Christina Gerhardt, author of An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Christina Gerhardt is interviewed on her recent book, Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean.
Arcadia
Development and Degradation in the Lakes of Lapsista and Ioannina from the 1950s to the Present
With the drying of its sister lake for purposes of agricultural development, Pamvotis is suffering accelerating degradation.
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Exploring City Wetlands: Small Resilient Unruly (Story Map)
Interactive story map by Paolo Gruppuso on urban ecologies in Latina, Italy.
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Different Ways of Thinking Globally: The Unlikely Return of the Noosphere in Russian Environmental Discourses
What role does Vernadsky’s concept of the noosphere plays in contemporary Russian environmental legislation and green economy discourses?