Shortis suggests that the World Park Antarctica campaign offers a positive example of an environmental campaign that includes but does not center scientific authority.
This exhibition collects wilderness-equivalent terms and describes them in a few short paragraphs, discussing how they may be similar to or different from the wilderness that native English speakers know and admire. The subtleties of meanings encompassed by the above terms, say, between human presence or absence, or between love and fear for the wild regions, is what we hope to explore. The exhibition is coordinated and edited by environmental historian Marcus Hall.
This part of the “Wilderness Babel” exhibition, written by historian Luigi Piccioni, comes to the assumption that all the various possible Italian translations of “Wilderness Babel” are unable to transmit this synthesis of natural phenomena and human visions.
This chapter of the “Wilderness Babel” exhibition, written by MSc student Livnat Goldberg, highlights different words that are used in modern Hebrew to describe “wilderness.”
This chapter of the “Wilderness Babel” exhibition, written by MSc student Natasha Yamamoto, looks at how wilderness may be expressed and understood in Japanese.
This chapter of the “Wilderness Babel” exhibition, written by historian Mikko Saikku, explores central concepts for understanding the traditional Finnish relationship with nature and use of natural resources.
This is Chapter 11 of the virtual exhibition “Promotion and Transformation of Landscapes along the CB&Q Railroad” by environmental historian Eric D. Olmanson. The chapter exlains the emergence of so called dude ranches and how railroads such as the CB&Q were vital to this business.
This is Chapter 12 of the virtual exhibition “Promotion and Transformation of Landscapes along the CB&Q Railroad” by environmental historian Eric D. Olmanson. The chapter focuses on the role of passenger rail for the process of suburbanization.
Rya Forest is a nature reserve in Gothenburg, Sweden, and historically an area of both appreciation and conflict.
This chapter of the “Wilderness Babel” exhibition, written by master’s student Luis Fernández Fernández, highlights different adjectives that are used in Catalan to describe wilderness.
