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The Extinction Studies Working Group is a group of humanities scholars researching and writing on the themes of time, death, generations, and extinction.
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Perspectives Article
How Households Shape Energy Transitions: Canada’s Great Transformation
Ruth Sandwell examines people’s energy-related experiences in the transition from the organic to the mineral fuel regime in Canada.
Perspectives Article
Who Generates Demand for Sustainable Energy Transitions? Geothermal Heating in Reykjavík
Odinn Melsted traces Reykjavík’s transition from coal to geothermal energy.
Perspectives Article
Climate-Sensitive Architecture as a Blueprint: Habits, Shades, and the Irresistible Staircase
Daniel Barber explores alternative visions of modernity in architectural projects in Brazil from the 1930s and 1940s that embraced, rather than excluded, climate.
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"When Race and Social Equity Matters in Nature Conservation in Post-apartheid South Africa"
The authors draw on empirical experience to assess the extent of the impact of race and social equity in conservation, with the aim of promoting sustainable and more inclusive conservation practices in South Africa. Their findings suggest conservation practices in post-apartheid South Africa are still exclusionary for the majority black population.
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"The Displacement of Insufficiently ‘Traditional’ Communities: Local Fisheries in the Pantanal"
This paper uses data from a long-term ethnography of both the local people and the conservation agenda in the Pantanal wetland, Brazil, to discuss how environmentalists used the National Policy for the Sustainable Development of Traditional Peoples and Communities (PNDSPCT) to justify the displacement of local people.
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Coexisting with Nature: The Huts of the Camargue Wetlands
The Camargue hut, a traditional dwelling from the southern French wetlands, exemplified the practical environmental wisdom of ordinary people.
Arcadia
Managing Tourism and Environmental Protection in Lake Ohrid in the 1970s and 1980s
This article examines the development of lake Ohrid in Macedonia, and the dilemma between environmental protection and the expansion of mass tourism on the lake’s fragile shores.
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Electronic Waste in Guiyu: A City under Change?
Once the largest toxic e-waste dump in the world, government investment in environmentally sustainable recycling has begun to change Guiyu.
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Interview with Kristina Lyons, author of Vital Decomposition: Soil Practitioners and Life Politics
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Kristina M. Lyons is interviewed on her new book, Vital Decomposition Soil Practitioners and Life Politics.