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Bees in America: How the Honey Bee Shaped a Nation
A cultural history of bees and beekeeping in the United States.
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Dragons with Clay Feet? Transition, Sustainable Land Use, and Rural Environment in China and Vietnam
Presents state-of-the-art research on the impact of ongoing and anticipated economic policy and institutional reforms on agricultural development and sustainable rural resource in two East-Asian transition (and developing) economies—China and Vietnam.
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"The Oedipal Logic of Ecological Awareness"
The philosopher Timothy Morton is using the Oedipal logic to explain the human shift from a creature inferior to nature to a geophysical force on a planetary scale and to think about possible solutions for an accordingly upcoming bitter end.
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The Man-Made Environment of Valaam Island
Valaam Island on Lake Ladoga is the location of the Orthodox Valaam Monastery. Due to the creation of alleys and gardens carefully cultivated by the monks, many non-endemic trees and plants acclimatized successfully. As a result, Valaam’s largely man-made environment is today considered to be one of the most dense and diverse biospheres in Europe.
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"Unruly Edges: Mushrooms as Companion Species"
Anna Tsing’s essay opens a door to multispecies landscapes as protagonists for histories of the world.
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"Remaking Wetlands: A Tale of Rice, Ducks, and Floods in the Murrumbidgee River Region"
Emily O’Gorman examines the ways in which ducks as well as people negotiated the changing water landscapes of the Murrumbidgee River caused by the creation of rice paddies.
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“Social Vulnerability to Climate in the ‘Little Ice Age’: An Example from Central Europe in the Early 1770s”
A study of social vulnerability to climate in Switzerland and in the Czech Lands during the early 1770s.
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"Ecologically Sustainable Rural Development and the Difficulty of Social Change"
Brian Furze explores the importance of environmental awareness in the context of alternative agrarian social relations.
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“Agricultural Sustainability in the Semi-Arid Near East”
An overview of agricultural sustainability in the eastern Mediterranean Levantine Corridor (the western part of the Fertile Crescent).
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"Distributional Obstacles to International Environmental Policy: The Failures at Rio and Prospects after Rio"
Martinez-Alier discusses issues relating to the concept of “sustainable development” as used by the Brundtland Commission.