Perspectives Article
Pragmatism and Poetry: National Parks and the Story of Canada
This article looks at the history of national parks in North America, particularly in relation to the size of the Canadian territory.
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"Representations of Tropical Forests and Tropical Forest-Dwellers in Travel Accounts of National Geographic"
This essay examines the dominant images of rainforests and rainforest peoples portrayed in accounts of travels in tropical America published in National Geographic.
Multimedia | journal
Wild Earth 10, no. 2
Wild Earth 10, no. 2 is dedicated to US national parks and protected areas. It also features articles by John Muir on anthropocentrism and James Morton Turner on early American environmentalism.
Multimedia | book profile
Rethinking the Power of Maps
Denis Wood takes a fresh look at what maps do, whose interests they serve, and how they can be used in surprising, creative, and radical ways.
Multimedia | book profile
The Power of Maps
Denis Wood shows how maps are not impartial reference objects, but rather instruments of communication, persuasion, and power.
Perspectives Article
The Geopolitics of Difference: Geographical Indications and Biocultural Otherness in the New Europe
This essay focuses on the intersection between biocultural diversity and markets by examining the application of Geographical Indications (GIs) in East European contexts as methods for protection of local culinary diversity.
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Mapping | Risk and Militarization
The cartography of nuclear bombings and nuclear waste can be understood and visualized in different ways depending on who is drawing the map. This is a chapter of the virtual exhibition “Representing Environmental Risk in the Landscapes of US Militarization” by literary scholar Hsuan L. Hsu.
Perspectives Article
Challenges to Fieldwork before 1914 and Today: Adaptation, Omission, Rediscovery
The challenges for mountain fieldwork today are different than those faced by researchers a century ago. This article looks at differences in funding, surveying practices, and academic networks and debate.
Perspectives
Crossing Mountains: The Challenges of Doing Environmental History
This issue of RCC Perspectives uses mountains as a common denominator around which to discuss overarching challenges of environmental history: challenges relating not only to mountain landscapes, but also to broader questions of sources, methods, cross-cultural research, project scale, and audience. Each author discusses some of their most intriguing discoveries, resulting in a brief and diverse collection of environmental history snapshots.