Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature
A biography of American scientist and popular ecology writer, Rachel Carson.
A biography of American scientist and popular ecology writer, Rachel Carson.
This volume brings together, for the first time—in Italy or for an English-speaking audience—a collection of over 40 authors from this deep and broad tradition of Italian environmental writing.
Howie Wolke and Dave Foreman write a memo to “the hardcore,” looking for a core group of people to run the new organization. They attach a draft platform and suggest a newsletter titled Nature More: The Newsletter of EARTH FIRST.
Christopher Williams discusses the personal, social and cash costs of environmental victimization, using psycho-social literature and brief case studies of intellectual disability, road transport, and cross-border pollution.
Mark Huxham and David Sumner assess the case of the Brent Spar, discussing some of the lessons that should be learnt from the incident by policy makers and scientists.
H.A.E. Zwart discusses Ibsen’s The Wild Duck as the origin of a new animal science.
This paper compares the heuristic potential of three metaphorical paired concepts used in the relevant literature to characterise global relationships between the anthroposphere and the ecosphere.
The Monkey Wrench Gang fueled a new generation of angry young environmentalists (such as Earth First!) who practice monkey-wrenching, or sabotage for the sake of protecting the wilderness.
This article examines whether and how Aldo Leopold was influenced by American Pragmatism, a formal school of philosophy.
ASLE seeks to inspire and promote intellectual work in the environmental humanities and arts, especially ecocriticism.