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"The Affective Legacy of Silent Spring"
Alex Lockwood tries to measure the importance of Rachel Carson’s work in its affective influence on contemporary environmental writing across the humanities.
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After London; or, Wild England
An early eco-apocalyptic novel set in the wilderness of post-urban England.
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"Ethics and Values in Environmental Policy: The Said and the UNCED"
Paul Craig, Harold Glasser, and Willett Kempton interview senior policy advisors to four European governments active in global climate change negotiations and the UNCED (United Nations Conference on Environment and Development) process.
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Williams, Christopher, "Environmental Victims: Arguing the Costs"
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.
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"Emotion, Science and Rationality: The Case of the Brent Spar"
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.
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"The Birth of a Research Animal: Ibsen's The Wild Duck and the Origin of a New Animal Science"
H.A.E. Zwart discusses Ibsen’s The Wild Duck as the origin of a new animal science.
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"Gaia Infiltrata: The Anthroposphere as a Complex Autoparasitic System"
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.
Perspectives Article
How to Read a Bridge
In this short article, Rob Nixon reflects on a visit to South Africa and the relationship of the various kinds of inequality present in societies.
Exhibition chapter
Literature | Risk and Militarization
With examples ranging form poetry to novels, literary scholar Hsu Hsuan presents a selection of literature on militarized landscapes. This is a chapter of the virtual exhibition “Representing Environmental Risk in the Landscapes of US Militarization.”
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"Jane Smiley’s A Thousand Acres (1991) and Archival Reimaginations of Eco-Cosmopolitanism"
This article blurs the boundaries of literature, agriculture, public history, grassroots political activism, and public policymaking in order to problematize the current eco-cosmopolitan trajectory of ecocritical theory.