The Magic of One: Reflections on the Pathologies of Monoculture
In this issue of RCC Perspectives, Frank Uekoetter addresses monocultures as more than a cultural phenomenon, considering the science, economics, and technology behind the trend.
In this issue of RCC Perspectives, Frank Uekoetter addresses monocultures as more than a cultural phenomenon, considering the science, economics, and technology behind the trend.
Around the world, fields and forests are increasingly dominated by the market, mediated by science, and subjected to new modes of transnational environmental governance. This volume of RCC Perspectives presents ethnographic insights into the impacts of such environmental globalization.
This volume of RCC Perspectives offers an interdisciplinary look at mining and its environmental impacts in central Europe. The metals and minerals covered in the articles include copper and silver in Tirol, mercury in Slovenia, lead and zinc in Westphalia, lime in the Rhineland, and uranium in East and West Germany.
This article looks back in time to understand the relationship of Canada’s population to its territory.
This article outlines the “global P problem sphere” before moving to insights obtained from a Canadian case study that examines the opportunities of applying a paradigmatic focal shift to phosphorus understanding—“from noxious to precious”— as assessed and evaluated through the direct participation of local stakeholders.
The construction of a bridge over the Isar River was a crucial factor in the foundation of the city of Munich in 1158.
Allan Curtis and Terry De Lacey analyze perceptions of the Australian grassroots movement “Landcare” through landholder surveys, thereby discussing wider concepts of natural resource management, stewardship and sustainable agriculture in Australia.
Laura Westra discusses biotechnology and transgenics in agriculture and aquaculture from a perspective of ecosystem integrity.
This collection brings together leading scholars on the environments of Latin America and the Caribbean to give us new and alternative narratives of the postcolonial history of the continent.
Esta colección reúne a algunos de los académicos más destacados en el estudio de las historias ambientales de América Latina y el Caribe para proponer nuevas perspectivas sobre el desarrollo poscolonial del continente. Estos ensayos narran historias variadas de interacciones complejas entre grupos sociales, estados y sus ambientes, y proveen nuevos ángulos para enriquecer las interpretaciones más conocidas.