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Care, Gender, and Survival: The Curious Case of the Seahorse
Susanne Schmitt explores the multifaceted ways in which the Syngnathid family is caught up in networks of care and storytelling.
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Schlangenlinien: Eine Geschichte der Kreuzotter
Schlangenlinien examines the history of the European Viper and the shift from extermination policies to those of protection and rehabilitation in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Arcadia
“Hit them hard and hit them well.” Possums, Pollution, and the Past in Aotearoa/New Zealand
The killing of possums as “pests” is framed as a caring relationship towards Aotearoa/New Zealand’s natural environment.
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Austin Earth First!, "End Corporate Dominance!," 1996
This Austin Earth First! publication titled “End Corporate Dominance!” features topics like the menace of the Endangered Species Act, the global gathering of indigenous people fighting the oil industry, Mexican Zapatismo, Austin’s transportation and land use infrastructure, Freeport McMoran mining in West Papua, Indonesia, and the children’s march to save Sierra Blanca.
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Attempts to Establish Eider Farms in the USSR, and Why These Failed
Little-known information is presented on the efforts to set up eider farms in the USSR between 1930 and 1960.
Perspectives Article
Entangled Nature: The Stirling Range National Park
Using the example of the Stirling Range National Park, Andrea Gaynor shows that the dualistic practice of reservation does not necessarily ensure the preservation or conservation of landscapes and ecosystems.
Perspectives Article
Through the Reef: Settler Politics, Science, and the Great Barrier Reef
Rohan Lloyd explores the relationship between scientific management and preservation of the Great Barrier Reef, with the understanding of anthropogenic climate change marking a pivotal point.
Arcadia
Ecological Impacts of Land Struggles in Makonde District, Zimbabwe: 1890 to Present
In 2000, the government restored land resources to the indigenous people of Zimbabwe. The chaotic land reform caused widespread environmental problems.
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Enhance ITN
ENHANCE is a four-year innovative training network (ITN) funded by Marie Skłodowska Curie that is dedicated to further establishing the Environmental Humanities as a field of cutting-edge scholarship in Europe and further afield.
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"Thomas Potts and the Forest Question: Conservation and Development in New Zealand in the 1860s"
The author examines the advent of native forest conservation in New Zealand’s Colony and the role of Thomas Potts in advocating exotic tree-planting as a response to timber shortage.