The authors promote the idea of “Natural Governance” as a new approach to conservation based on three pillars, namely ecology, cooperation, and cultural systems.
Amanda Poole reviews Sara Wylie’s Fractivism: Corporate Bodies and Chemical Bonds.
Vasundhara Jairath reviews the book Life in Oil: Cofán Survival in the Petroleum Fields of Amazonia by Michael L. Cepek.
Nicholas Babin´s review of the book Organic Sovereignties by Guntra A. Aistara.
Anja Nygren reviews the 2017 book Green Wars: Colonization and Conservation in the Maya Forest by Megan Ybarra.
Through a case study of the nickel mine Ambatovy in Madagascar, the authors explore local perceptions of the magnitude and distribution of impacts of biodiversity offset projects on local well-being.
The author investigates the lives of Tibetan pastoralists in alpine wetlands, how they understand wetlands, and how politics, market forces, and religious norms cooperate to produce their relationships with their livestock and their lands.
The authors study the relationship between poverty and poaching using a sample of 173 self-admitted poachers dwelling in villages near Ruaha National Park in Tanzania.
In this chapter from the virtual exhibition “Global Environments: A 360º Visual Journey,” Sarah Elizabeth Yoho’s 360° video captures the process of constructing a dry stone wall in Italy’s Cinque Terre. In cooperation with community organization Tu Quoque Vernazza, it was filmed over nine days and is shown in time-lapse. The camera captures the grapevine’s point of view of Cinque Terre life.
Jonathan Carruthers Jones’s 360º video takes you on a journey with multiple hikers to the Arctic Circle, the Abisko National Park in northern Sweden, to understand what wilderness means to people. He concludes that even though it is a much-contested term—with supposedly lots of personal differences in opinions—people share a lot in common in their views of what wilderness is.
